The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-31 00:00:00

AND • WEST
COMPANY.
The COURT of DIRECTORS of the East and West India
Dock Company H FRE is Y GIVE NOTICE, That a Half-Yeatly
Court or General Meeting of the said Compauv will be held—
pursuant to the directions of the Oct 1 and 2 William IV., cap.
iS2—at the Dock House. No. 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the
11th day of January, Is7o. at which Meeting a Dividend will be
declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the Half-year
tending the 31st day of December, 186:).
By order of the Court.
GEORGE COLLIN', Eecretsl7.
East and West India Dock HMV!,
Billiter-square, 28th Dec., 1869.
N.B.—The Chair will be taken at two o'c'ock precisely.

INDIA DOCK

EAST

UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE.
EstabliFfhed 1821.
Subscribed Capital... Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq.
DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN Frederick IL Janson, Eeq.
Henry Ifu!se Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq
Hy. Bortham-rarter, Esq J Hubbard, Esq
Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J Shavr Lefevre, Esq, M.P
Charles F. Deve,s, liNsq John Martin, Esq
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq
Fir W. R. Farquhar, Bart ;shies Morris, Esq
I.m.s (1-o is n. Earl bra,ham J. tiobarts, Esq
Archibald Hamilton Esq Henry Vigne, Esq
Whomson Hankey. Esq
SECRETAILY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq,
ACTUARY— Saml. Brown, Esq.
N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Christmas must
1-e renewed at the Head Office, or with the ageate, on or
before the Bth of January.
The Government Duty is totally abolished.
Prospectus.- a and Forms of Proposal, with gatemen of the
asset, and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to
the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary.

" ATETROPOLITAN PUBLIC CARRIAGE
ALL ACT, 18G9.'
` The following ORDER has been approved of by the Right
Honourable HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, one of her 31a-
jasty's Principal Secretaries of State, and will be made by
him and be in force on and after the Ist day of January,
1870.

Orders as to Licensing Hackney and Stage Carriages,
as to Licensing Drivers of Hackney and Stage Car-
riages, and as to certain Regulations relating to
Hackney and Stage Carriages, made in pursuance
of "The Metropolitan Public t arliage Act, 1869,"
Z 2 and 33 Vic., cap. 113, sec. 6,8, 9, 10, and 11, by
the Right Honourable Henry Austin Bruce," one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

I do order, prescribe, and direct as follows (that is to
AS TO LICENSING HACKNEY AND STAGE
I CARRIAGES.
1. Licences to be granted for Hackney Carriages under
the said Act shall be in the Form A contained in th 3
schedule to this Order, and Licences granted under the
said Act for Stage Carriages shall be in Form B contained

iu the same Sch-e-dulo.
2. Licences to be granted under the said Act shall be
granted by the Commissic•ner of Police of the Metropolis,
-who has been appointed by me for that purpose ; but no
Licence shall be granted to any person under the age of
21 years, or to any person who shall have been previously
convicted of felony.
3. B .fore any such Licence shall be granted, the person
applying for the same shall pay to the Receiver of the Me-
tropolitan Pollee District, or to some pers n appointed by
the said Receiver to receive the same, the sum of V,
which I hereby prescribe to be the sum and price to be
paid in respect thereof. The application for a Hackney-
carriage Licence shall be made in the form of C, and for a
Stage-carriage Licence in the Form of D, in the Schedule

hereto.
4. Before any such Licence shall be granted a Certificate
is to be signed by an Inspector of Public Carriages stating
that the Hackney or Stage Carriage in respect of which
the application is made has been examined by him, and
that it is fit for use, and specifying the number of persons
which the carriage may be licensed to carry, and the num-
ber so specified shall be stated in the Licence.
5. Any Licence granted on the application of any Cc-
partnership or Company shall he issued to the senior, part-
ner, or to the Secretary or Man,get, of the Company, as
the case may be; and the senior partner, or the Secretary
or Manager, to whom the Licence shall be issued, shall be
responsible for the observance of the regulations hereby
Blade, and of the conditions under which the Licence is
granted, and shall be liable to all penalties for breeches of
these regulations and the provisions of this Order as if t hey
were the person solely interested in the Carriage and in
the Licence.
6. So soon as may be after the signing of the Certificate
as to the fitness of any Carriage for I.nblic use, the Carriage
shall bo brought to the Police-station of the District,
where a metal Plate bearing the distinguishing number of
such Carriage will be fixed, in the presence of an Inspector
of Public Carriages, in the case of a four-wheeled Hack-
ney Carriage, on the back panel thereof ; in the case of a
Hansom Carriage, on the off-side panel ; and in the case of
a Metropolitan Stage Cat riage, on the back thereof. And
I hereby prescribe that each Carriage licensed shall bo
distinguished by such Plate, and such Plate shall not be
removed from the place where it shall have been so fixed
without the authority of the Commissioner of Police of the
Metropolis.
7. A Licence will afterwards be prepared, bearing the
distinguishing number of the Carriage, and vt ill be sent to
the Proprietor.
8. Each Licence shall be issued in respect of one Carriage
only, and shall distinguish the Carriage licensed by a
Number. _ _

9. Every Licence to be granted in pursuance of the
said Act and this Order shall continue in force for one
year from the date of such Licence, unless suspended or
revoked, and the Licence shall be subject to revision, or
suspension for any period, in any events in which any
Hackney or Stage-carriage Licence might -have Fen sus-
pended or revoked at the thee of the passing of the sal
Metr,)politan Public Carriage Act, ; and in Ihe event
of any breach of the provisions of the said Act, or of this
Ord r, or of any regniati. ns made thereby, which provi-
sions and regulations relate to Hacktiey or State Car-
riages and the Proprietors thereof ; and also in the event
of the Proprietor being convicted of any felony :or mis-
demeanour. And I hereby order and prescribe it to be an
express condition of the granting of anyllackney or Stage-
carriage Licence under this Order, that any such Licence
shall be stet joct to revision and suspmsi,ei forany peikd
by the Secretary of State for the Pismo Departnient. if at
any time any Proprietor shall be convicted of any offence
against the provisions of this Order, or of any Act for
the time being in force relating to Hackney or Stage Car-
riages, or of any felony or misdemeanour.
10. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall,
within three days after a notice shall have been deli-
vered to him, either personally or left at the address
mentioned in his Licence, or on the expiration of the
period for which his Licence shall have been granted,
within three days from such expiration, deliver up his
Licenaa to the Inspector of Public Carriages at the
Police-station of the District within which the place of
his address, as described in the 15th Clause hereof, shall
be situate, and within the said periods shall bring the
Carriage to such Police-station named, in order that the
Plato may be unfixed, and he shall then and there de-
liver up the Plate to the Inspector of Public Carriages.
11. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage E hall at
any time, when required by the Commissioner of Police
of the Metropolis, produce and show the Licence which
shall have been granted to him in respect of such
Carriage.

12. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not
conceal the Plate, nor shall he obliterate or deface any
number or mark thereon.

13. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not
knowingly permit the same to be used for any illegal
purpose.
14. Any Licence erased or defaced shall be void and of
none effect.
15. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage who shall,
during the currency of the Licence, change his abode or
place of residence, shall within seven days of such
change, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police
of the Metropolis, and until such notice the address men-
tioned in the Licence, and after such notice the address
mentioned in the notice, shall be deemed to be the address.
of the Proprietor of the Licensed Carriage for all pur-
poses, whether of service of notices or otherwise.
16. During the currency of any Licence, and until it
shall have been returned to the Commissioner of the Police
of the Metropolis, the Proprietor of any Carriage shall,
at all reasonable times, allow to all persons appointed by
the Secretary of State, or by the Commissioner of Police
of the Metropolis, for the purpose of inspecting Horses
or Carriages, free access to their premises where such
Horses and Carriages are kept, for the purpose of such in-
spection, on the production of a special order of the said
Commissioner for that purpose.
17. In case of the death of any Proprietor during the
continuance of his Licence, the Licence shall be brought
to the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metro-
polis, who will by endorsement thereon transfer the
Licence to the person entitled thereto by Will, or to the
person entitled to administer to the deceased Proprietor,
or to the widow or surviving husband, or eldest male
child (being of age) of the deceased Proprietor.
N.B.—The above provisions apply both to Hackney
Carriages and Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and the
word Carriage when used above (unless where
otherwise specified) applies equally to both of these
classes. The following provisions apply to Hack-
ney Carriages only :-
18. Every person desirous of applying for a Licence in
respect of any Hackney Carriage, under the said Act and
this Order, shall make and sign his application in the Form
C contained in the Schedule hereto.
19. At any time during the currency of the Licence the
Proprietor of the licensed Carriage may alter the Fares
mentioned in the Form of Application, but fourteen days'
notice shall, previously to any such alteration, be given to
the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
And with respect to "Regulations relating to Hack-
ney and Stage Carriages," I do by this my Order
make the following Regulations :
AS T 9 HACKNEY CARRIAGES ONLY.
1. The number of persons to be carried in any Hackney
Carriage shall be the number mentioned in the Licence
granted in respect of such Carriage.
2. Previous to the granting of any Licence for any
Hackney Carriage, the Proprietor thereof shall cause to
be distinctly painted, and shall thereafter keep distinctly
painted, on the outside, at the back of each Carriage, the
Number of persons to be carried, and no greater number
of persons shall be carried than anth,rised by the Licetice'•
3. Every child shall he reckoned as a person within !he
meaning of the f, ,regoing Regnlat ions.
4. The Table of Distances signed by the Commissiene,
of Police of the Metropolis in pursuance of the' 6th sect7oe
of statute 16 and 17 Vic, e. 33, see. 17, and now in force.
shell until further order be evidence for the purpose of
anv Fare to be charred Icy distenee within the ineanine
of the Oth section of the Metropolitan Public C.rringe Act.
18139.

5. T 1 Proptiotor of rvery Licenged TTaclin,,y Carria;.:i•
t-ba'l provide and affix to the top of t',o Carriage, in
s wkot, or by a hinge, as the Colonissiimer of Police of th,
lkli_itropo7k shall direct. a mobil fla;..r. on which stall bc
distinctly paii,ted in black hitters on a white ground, or
white letters on a Wack gronna. the Fares licensed to be
charg'd both for distance and time. _ _

6. Fa to le clinrßed shall be the Fares mentioned it
the n•r't:en al plication for a Licance until tbev sbaa have
been altered and notice of such alteration shall have beer
given, as abovo mentioned, ar.d after the expiration of such
notice, then the Fares mentioned in the notice, and such
alteration of Fares are to he repainted on the

7. Tt shall not be lawful for any Licensed Hackney Car-
riage to ply for hire except on an authorised public stand-
ing; and while the Carriage shall be there plying for hire.
tlie flag shall he raised on the hinge or fixed in the socket
so ro be nlainly exhibited on the top of the Carriage.
8. Immediately on the Carriage being hirod, the flag