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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1882 . 1611


Tramways.


and re-enter the carriages ; and every fare paid by every passenger for travelling upon
the tramway No. 6, or any part thereof, shall entitle such passenger to travel any
distance on the said last mentioned tramway, once, on the day on which such passenger
shall so travel, in the same direction continuously, and without leaving the carriages,
but for no further distance, or on any tramway other than the tramway No. 6, or more
than once, or on any other day, or in any other direction , or to leave and re-enter the
carriages.

43. If the carriages shall, during any journey, contain their proper complement If carriages full,
company not
of passengers, the company shall not be bound to find accommodation for any other bound to carry.

passenger, notwithstanding that such other passenger may have purchased a ticket or
tickets entitling him to travel upon the tramways, or any of them.

44. No passenger may take on any of the tramways his personal luggage other Passengers
luggage .
than small hand baskets, bags, or parcels, any one of which shall not exceed sixteen
pounds in weight, or one cubic foot in measurement. All such personal luggage to be
carried by hand, and at the responsibility of the passenger, and not to occupy any
part of a seat, nor to be of a form or description to annoy or inconvenience other
passengers .

45. The company may demand and take, in respect of any animals, goods, mer Tolls for animals,
goods, &c.
chandize, minerals or parcels conveyed by them on the tramways, except as is by this
Ordinance specially provided, including the tolls and charges for the use of the
tramways, and for waggons or trucks, and for motive power, and every other expense

incidental to such conveyance, any tolls or charges not exceeding the tolls and charges
specified in schedule C. hereto , subject to the regulations therein contained.
46. The said tolls and charges shall be paid to such persons, and at such places Payment of tolls
and in such manner, as the company may, by notice annexed to the list of tolls,
appoint.

Abandonment of undertaking.

47. Notwithstanding anything herein contained , it shall and may be lawful for Liberty to
company to
the company at any time, if they shall not then have, under the power herein contained, abandon under
taking.
sold, assigned or disposed of, or demised their undertaking , or the part or parts thereof
proposed to be abandoned, to abandon their undertaking, or any part or parts thereof,
and to take up the tramways, or any or either of them, on giving to the Governor in
Council three months ' notice of their intention so to do ; and if the company shall abandon
the tramways Nos . 1 , 2 , 3, 4 and 5 , or any, or either of them, they shall, with all con
venient speed and in all cases within eight weeks at the most (unless the Surveyor Ge
neral otherwise consents in writing) , fill in the ground and make good the surface, and
to the reasonable satisfaction of the Surveyor General restore the portion of the road
upon which such last -mentioned tramways, or such of them as shall be abandoned ,
were laid to as good a condition as that in which it was before such tramways were laid
thereon, and clear away surplus paving , or metalling material, or rubbish occasioned
by such work, and they shall in the meantime cause the place where the road is opened ,

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