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person found so smoking shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding two pounds.

19. Smoking is strictly prohibited in any railway
    carriage except those set apart for the purpose; and
    any person found smoking in a carriage not set
    apart for the purpose, shall forfeit a penalty not ex-
    ceeding two pounds, and may be removed from the
    carriage by any railway servant.

20. Dogs will be conveyed and charged for accord-
    ing to printed conditions, but will not on any account
    be allowed to accompany passengers in the carriages.
    Any person persisting in taking a dog into a passenger
    carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    two pounds.

21. No gratuity shall be, under any circumstances,
    allowed to be received by a railway servant on pain
    of dismissal. Any person giving or offering a gratuity
    to any such servant shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding two pounds.

22. Any person making use of insulting or abusive
    language to any railway officer or servant while in
    the execution of his duty, or making use of indecent
    or blasphemous language in any carriage or upon
    any railway platform or premises, shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding five pounds.

23. Any person in or upon any railway carriage or
    station, being in a state of intoxication, or committing
    any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering
    with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to
    removal from such carriage or station as soon as
    shall be practicable.

24. Any person driving or attempting to drive
    vehicles, sheep, horses, cattle, or other animals across
    the railway, either at an authorized crossing-place or
    elsewhere, when an approaching train is in sight,
    or when otherwise warned, shall be liable to a.
    penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

25. No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney
    carriage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle,
    shall ply for hire within the railway premises without
    a license in writing from the General Manager or
    other authorized officer; and any person offending
    contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding five pounds.

26. No person will be allowed to come upon any
    railway platform for the purpose of removing any
    passenger or luggage, unless required by a passenger
    and engaged by him for such purpose; and no person
    will be allowed to come upon any railway premises
    for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any
    person attempting to evade or being guilty of a
    breach of this section, or not quitting the premises
    when required by a Station Master or other railway
    servant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    two pounds.

27. Any person, unless authorized by the General
    Manager, who shall post or stick any placard or bill
    within or on any of the property or premises, shall
    be subject to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

28. Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly or
    in part, any of the linings or blinds, or break or
    deface any of the windows, or remove or injure any
    number-plate or advertisement, or remove or ex-
    tinguish any of the lamps, or otherwise damage any
    railway carriage, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding five pounds, in addition to the payment of
    the amount of damage done.

29. No article shall be sold on any railway pre-
    mises without the consent of the General Manager,
    and every person offending against the provisions of
    this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five
    pounds.

30. All persons employed on or about the railway
    or wharf are strictly prohibited from using the re-
    freshment-room; and every such person partaking
    of intoxicating liquor at such refreshment-room will
    be liable to instant dismissal.

31. Any person attending upon the refreshment-
    room who shall supply an employé on or about the
    railway or wharf with intoxicating liquor, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and
    shall be dismissed from his employment.

Merchandise.

32. The railway will not be accountable for any
    articles unless the same be signed for as received by
    their clerks or agents; nor will they be responsible
    for the loss of or damage to money in cash, or bills,
    or promissory notes, or securities for money, or
    jewellery, trinkets, rings, precious stones, bullion,
    gold and silver plate, clocks, watches, mirrors,
    marbles, lace, furs, silks, writings, title deeds, prints,
    paintings, maps, or other valuables; nor for damage
    done to china, glass, musical instruments, furniture,
    toys, castings, or any other such hazardous
    or brittle articles, unless they shall have been declared
    as such, and a special agreement entered into for the
    same; nor for any loss or damage to any goods in
    their hands as carriers, or in their warehouse, or on
    their landing-places, arising from fire (except from
    their own engine or apparatus), the act of God, civil
    commotion, or foreign enemies; nor for the loss of
    or damage done to goods put into boxes or packages
    described as empties, nor for damage of any goods
    or packages insufficiently or improperly packed, or
    containing a variety of articles liable by breaking to
    damage each other or other articles; nor for leakage,
    nor for any loss or damage whatsoever by reason of
    accidental or unavoidable delays in transit or other-
    wise.

33. No claim for loss or damage will be allowed
    unless specified in writing and made within two days
    after delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or
    within seven days after the due time of delivery in
    case of total loss.

34. The railway will refuse to receive for carriage
    any goods which in the judgment of their agents
    may be of a dangerous nature; and senders of any
    dangerous articles will be held accountable for any
    damage arising therefrom, unless the contents shall
    have been declared at the time of delivery.

35. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish-
    able articles not taken away within six hours after
    arrival at the station to which they are consigned,
    may be forthwith sold, by auction or otherwise,
    without notice to the sender or consignee; and pay-
    ment or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale,
    after deduction of freight and expenses, shall be
    accepted as equivalent to delivery.

36. All empties not taken away within one month
    after arrival will be sold to defray expenses.

37. All goods are received and will be held by the
    railway subject to a general lien for money due, not
    only for the carriage of such goods, and for wharfage
    and warehouse rent, but also for any general balance
    that may be due for the owner. And in case any
    goods should not be claimed within three calendar
    months after their arrival at the station to which they
    are consigned, they will be sold by auction or other-
    wise, and the proceeds applied towards satisfaction
    of such general lien and expenses.

38. All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or
    free, and all luggage, having arrived at its destina-
    tion, shall be removed by the consignees from the
    platform and sheds within twelve working hours;
    and any free goods, merchandise, or luggage not
    removed by that time, may be stored at the risk and
    expense of the consignees or owners, and will become
    subject to such charges as may from time to time
    be fixed by the railway; and any bonded goods or
    merchandise which shall not be removed within the