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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

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OF THE

STANDING LAW COMMITTEE

ON A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for authorizing the Construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hongkong,

PRESENT :-----

The Honourable the Acting Attorney General (HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK), Chairman.

Dr. Ho KAL

T. H. WHITEHEAD.

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J. J. BELL-IRVING.

WEI YUK.

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I, HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, Acting Attorney General. Chairman of the Standing Law Committee, do hereby certify that meetings of the Standing Law Committee on a Bill entitled An Ordinance for authorizing the Construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hongkong, were held on the 31st day of July and the 1st and 14th days of August, 1901, and that at such meetings the said Bill was considered clause by clause in the presence of all the Members of such Standing Law Committee, and that, in the opinion of such Standing Law Committee, such Bill may be dealt with by the Council in the same manner as a Bill reported on by a Committee of the whole Council ;

And I do also hereby certify that, at the aforesaid meetings of the said Standing Law Committee, the following amendments to the said Bill were unanimously agreed to by the Standing Law Com- mittee, namely:-

1. That paragraph 3 of clause 11 be omitted.

2. That in clause 13 the word "to" after the word "intended" be omitted.

3. That clause 14 of the Bill be amended, so as to read as follows:-

"14. After and so soon as the said Tramway has been constructed and laid down the Company shall, at their own expense, at all times maintain and keep in good condition and repair, with such materials and in such manner as the Director of Public Works shall direct and to his satisfaction, so much of any road whereon any tramway belonging to the Company is laid as lies between the rails of the tramway and (where two tramways are laid by the Company in any road at a distance of not more than four feet from each other) the portion of the road between the tramways, and in every case so much of the road as extends eighteen inches beyond the rails of and on each side of any such tramway. Except as aforesaid the Company shall not be liable to pay for the cost of the maintenance or repair of any road whereon the tramway is laid."

4. That in sub-section (2) of clause 19 the words from "and all alterations to be made"

down the end of the sub-section be omitted.

5. That in clause 19 the following new sub-section be inserted after sub-section (3) to be

numbered (4), namely:-

(4.) All alterations to be made under this section shall be made with as little detriment and inconvenience to such Department, Company, persons or person as the circumstances will admit of and under the superintendence of such Department, Company, persons or person, or of their or his surveyor or engineer.

6. That the present sub-sections (4), (5) and (6) of clause 19 be renumbered (5), (6) and (7). 7. That for the words "be settled y a specialb case" at the end of clause 24 the words "be

settled by a special casc "be substituted.

8. That for the word "purpose" in clause 25, the word "purpose" be substituted.

9. That clause 42 of the Bill be amended by substituting a comma for a full stop at the end of the clause, and by adding at the end of the clause the words "when practicable."