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counselling or aiding any other person in doing, any
of the things mentioned in this section, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, in
addition to any penalty to which he may otherwise
be liable for doing any of the said things.

29. If any person deface the writings on any boards,
    or any notices authorized to be maintained on a rail-
    way or any station thereof, or any rolling stock
    thereon, he shall forfeit for every such offence a sum
    not exceeding ten pounds, and an additional sum equal
    to the cost incurred in repairing any such damage.

30. Any person trespassing upon any part of a
    railway, not being a station platform or crossing, or
    other part to which the public are allowed access by
    law, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
    pounds.

31. The General Manager shall publish the short
    particulars of the several offences for which any
    penalty is imposed by these or any other by-laws of
    the railway, and of the amount of every such
    penalty, and shall cause such particulars to be
    painted on a board, or printed upon paper and pasted
    thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or
    affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal
    station of the railway; and, where any such
    penalties are of local application, shall cause such
    boards to be affixed in some conspicuous place in
    the immediate neighbourhood to which such penalties
    are applicable or have reference; and such particu-
    lars shall be renewed as often as the same or any
    part thereof is obliterated or destroyed.

32. 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 ten pounds, and to re-
    moval from such carriage or station as soon as shall
    be practicable.

33. No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney car-
    riage, 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 ten pounds.

34. No person will be allowed to come upon any rail-
    way platform for the purpose of removing any pas-
    senger 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 per-
    son attempting to evade or being guilty of a breach
    of this section, or not quitting the premises when re-
    quired by a Station Clerk or other railway servant
    shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

35. 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 ten pounds.

36. 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
    engine, carriage, truck, wagon, or other property
    belonging to a railway, shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding ten pounds, in addition to a sum equal
    to the cost incurred in repairing any such damage.

37. Any person selling, or attempting to sell, any
    article on any of the premises of a railway without
    the consent of the General Manager, shall forfeit a
    sum not exceeding ten pounds.

38. No goods will be received for carriage, or
    carried upon a railway, except upon the following
    conditions:-
    (1.) That a "consignment note," on a form to
    be obtained from the person in charge of
    the Station, properly filled in and signed by
    or on behalf of the consignor, is handed to
    the officer receiving the goods at the time
    of their delivery. (See notice below.)
    (2.) That the person delivering the goods ob-
    tains at the same time a written receipt for
    the same, signed by the officer to whom
    they are delivered.

39. The Minister will not be responsible for any
    loss or damage in respect to any goods received for
    carriage, or carried on a railway, under any of the
    following circumstances, that is to say, -
    (1.) If the above-mentioned consignment note
    is not delivered with the goods, or the re-
    ceipt not obtained for the same.
    (2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently
    described on the consignment note.
    (3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the
    premises of the railway for more than
    twelve working hours after their arrival at
    the station to which they are addressed.
    (4.) If they are put into packages described as
    "empties."
    (5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely
    packed, or if articles liable by breakage or
    leakage to damage one another are packed
    in the same package.
    (6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act
    of God, civil commotions, Queen's enemies,
    or from fire (except from the railway en-
    gines or apparatus), or from accidental
    delays in transit occurring from either of
    these causes.

40. The following goods are hereby declared to be
    special goods, within the meaning of "The Public
    Works Act, 1876":
    Bank Notes.
    Bills of Exchange.
    Carriages.
    Castings.
    Cattle.
    China.
    Clocks.
    Drays.
    Engravings.
    Furniture.
    Furs.
    Glass.
    Gold or Silver Coin.
    Gold or Silver Plate.
    Maps.
    Marble Goods.
    Musical Instruments.
    Notes or Securities for
    payment of Money.
    Orders for ditto
    Paintings.
    Pictures.
    Pigs.
    Plated Articles.
    Precious Stones.
    Sheep.
    Gold or Silver, Manu-
    Stamps.
    factured.
    Silks.
    Slate Goods.
    Title Deeds.
    Trinkets.
    Wagons.
    Watches.
    Writings.
    Gold or Silver, Unmanu- Toys.
    factured.
    Horses.
    Jewellery.
    Lace.

41. The consignment note accompanying any spe-
    cial goods must state them to be "special," and must
    set forth their nature and value. Unless such state-
    ment and declaration is made, the Minister is not
    responsible for any loss or damage to a greater extent
    than fifteen pounds in respect to any horse, eight
    pounds in respect to any neat cattle, fifteen shillings
    in respect of any sheep or swine, and ten pounds in
    respect of any package in which any special goods
    are contained. All special goods exceeding in value
    the above-mentioned sums, shall be subject to a
    charge, in addition to the ordinary freight, by way of
    insurance, according to a scale of rates of insurance
    to be from time to time published by the Minister in
    that behalf.

42. If the value of any special goods stated on the
    consignment note appears to the officer receiving the
    same to be extravagant or fictitious, or if the goods