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London, England, 1870-01-03 00:00:00

13. Every Licensed Carriage and all its furniture and
appointments, and the harness used for the horso or
horses drawing the same, shall be always kept in per-
fect order and repair.
And for securing the safo custody and re-delivery of
any property accidentally left in Hackney and Me-
tropolitan Stage Carriages, and fixing the Charges
to be paid in respect thereof, and with reference to
the sale of such property, and as to giving it to the
finder in the event of its not being claimed within a

certain time, I make the followhig regulations :-
1. Immediately after the termination of any hiring, the
driver of any Hackney Carriage, and immediately after the
completion of any journey, the conductor of any Metro-
politan Stage Carriage, shall carefully search the Carriage
for any property which may have been accidentally left
therein, and any such article found on such search, or at
any other time, by, or delivered to, any driver or conduc-
tor, or which may be found at any time by any other per-
son shall, if not sooner claimed by the owner thereof,
within twenty-four hours after such finding, be deposited
in the state in which it shall be found at a Police-station
within the Metropolitan Police-District, but nothing in
this Regulation is to be deemed or taken to repeal the 11th
section of the statute 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 33.
2. All property found in Hackney or Stage Carriages,
and deposited with the Police as aforesaid, and all pro-
perty brought to any Police-station by any driver or con-
ductor, under the statute of 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 33, sec.
11, if not claimed and approved to the satisfaction of the
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to belong to the
claimant, for three months after the property is so brought
to or deposited at the Police-station, will, at the discretion
of the Commissioner of police of the Metropolis, bo either
delivered to the person who shall have deposited the found
property, or be sold.
3. If the property found shall not be delivered to the
depositor, but shall be sold as aforesaid, a sum of money
shall be awarded by the said Commissioner and paid to the
person who shall have deposited the found property, on
the following scale :
If the article deposited be of less value than £lO, for
gold and silver money, bank notes, jewellery, and
watches, a sum equal to three shillings in the pound
on the value of the article.
For all other articles, two shillings and sixpence inilie
pound.
But in no case shall any less sum be awarded than
one shilling.
If the article deposited be of £lO value or upwards,
then in every case such a sum shall be paid as the
said Commissioner may in his discretion specially
award.

4. If the property which shall have been so deposited
shall be claimed before the expiration of the said period
of three months, the same shall be re-delivered to the
claimant, if he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Com-
missioner of Police of the Metropolis that he has a right
to the re-delivery thereof, on payment by the claimant of
all expenses incurred, and of such a reasonable sum to the
driver, conductor, or other depositor, as the Commissioner
shall award.

And with reference to Metropolitan Stage Carriages,
1 make the following Regulations:— _

1. No printed or written—bilrs'hall be affixed on any part
of the outside of any Licensed Metropolitan Stage Car-
riage, except to designate the destination of such. Carr-
i nor shall any printed or written bill be fastened or
placed against the insida of the windows of any such
Carriage.

2. Every Licensed Metropolitan Stage Carriage and all
its furnitu -o and appointments, and the harness of the
horses drawing the same, shall always be kept in perfect
order and repair.
And with regard to Licensing Drivers of Hackney
Carriages, and the Drivers and Conductors of Stage
Carriages, I do by this my Order, direct, and pre-
scribe as follows:

1. All Licences which a Secretary of State may grant
to drivers of Hackney Carriages, and to the drivers and
conductors of Metropolitan Stage Carriages, shall be
granted by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis,
who has been appointed by me for that purpose.
2. All Licences so granted to the drivers of Hackney
Carriages, and to the drivers and conductors of Metropo-,
litan Stage Carriages, shall be respectively in the forms
marked E, F, CI, in the Schedule to this Order, and
all the provisions of the Acts relating to Hackney Car-
riages, and Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and Police Re-
gulations now in force with respect to the application for
the granting of and generally as to Licences granted under
these Acts, or any of them, shall, save as the same are
varied by this Order, or are inconsistent therewith, or with
the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, apply to Li-
cences granted under the said last-mentioned Act, and this
my order.
3. Licences granted under the said Metropolitan Public
Carriage Act, 1869, and this my Order, shall be granted on
and after the Ist day of January, 1870, and if not revoked
or suspended, be in force for one year from the date there-
of ; and there shall be paid in respect thereof to the Re-
ceiver for the Metropolitan Police District, or to such per-
son as he shall appoint, before any licence shall be granted,
the sum of Throe Shillings for every licence granted
before the Ist day of February, 1870, and Five Shillings
for every Licence granted on and after that day, and I
hereby prescribe the said sums of Three Shillings and
Five Shillings to be the sums respectively payable for
every. Licence.
4. Any Licence granted under this Order to any driver
or conductor shall be subject to revocation or suspension
for any period of time by any Justice of the Peace in any
of the events in which any Licence granted to any driver
or conductor in pursuance of any Act of Parliament might,
at the passing of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act,
1869, be revoked or suspended; and also in the event of
any breach of this Order or the provisions thereof, or the
Regulations thereby made, or of the provisions of the said
Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869. And further, I
do Order and hereby prescribe it to be an express condi-
tion of the granting of any Licence under this Order
to any driver or conductor, that the Secretary of State for
the Home Department shall have power to revoke or for any
period suspend any Licence granted under this Order, if at
any time any driver or conductor shall be convicted of any
offence against or breach of the said Metropolitan
Public Carriage Act, 1869, or this Order, or the pro-
visions thereof, or of any Regulations thereby made, or of
any offence upon conviction whereof before anyJustioe or
Justices of the Peace, the said Justice or Justices had
owor at the time of the passing of the said Metropoli-
in Public Carriage Act, 1869, to suspend or revoke any
Licence held by any driver or conductor.
And, lastly. I do hereby annex a penalty, not exceeding
Forty Shillings, for the breach of this Order, or of any
Provision thereof, or of any Regulation hereby directed,
save only in those cases where a penalty may lawfully be
imposed for any offence under the provisions of any other
Act of Parliament now in force.

Hero follow the Schedules, copies of which may be
seen at the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the
Metropolis, Publics Carriage Branch, Great Scotland-
yard.