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London, England, 1831-09-29 00:00:00

XXXII. Particulars of licences to be entered in books at
the Stamp-afficei and sunk entries to be evidence.
XXXII!. Procuring any licence in a fictitious name, a
misdemeanor.
XXX IV. That the driver of every hackney carriage
which shall be 'let for hire at arty place withirt the diseases
of five miles from the Gene:al Post Office, hi ,the City 41.
bond( n, shall he obliged and compellable, if required by
my person hiring such-hackney carriage, unless Etch driver
shall have a reasonable excuse to be allowed by the Justice
before whom any such :natter shall be broght m question,
to drive such hackney carriage to any place to which he shall
be 233 required to drive the same within the distance of five
miles from the said Geoeral Post Office, or to any place to
which be shall be so required to drive the same within the
.distance of five miles from the place where the same shall
have bten let to hire ; and in case such driver shall refuse to
drive such hackney carriage to any such place as aforesaid,
he shall forfeit 40s.
XXXV. That every hackney carriage which shall be
found standing in any street or place, and hiving thereon
any of the numbered plates required by this act to be axed
on' hackney carriage*, shall, unless actually hired, be deemed
to be plying for hire, although such hackney carriage shall
norbe on any standing or place usually appropriated for the
purpose of hackney carriages standing or plying for hire;
and the driver of every such hackney airship which shall
not be actually hired shall be obliged and compellable to go
with any person desirous of hiring such hackney carriage;'
and upon the hearing of any complaint against dm driver of
any such hackney carriage for any such refusal, such driver
shall be obliged to adduce evidence of having been, and of
being actually hired at the time of such refusal, and in ease,
such driver shall fail to produce sufficient evidence of having
been and of being so hired as aforesaid, he shall forfeit forty
shillings.
XXXVI. Compensatidn to be made to drivers improperly
summoned for refusing to carry any person.
XXXVII. Drivers may ply, and shall be compellable. to
drive on Sundays.
XXXVIII. That the proprietor or driver of any hackney
;carriage, licensed under the provisions of this set, shall be
'entitled to demand and take for the hire of such imatney
carriage the rates and farm mentioned and set forth in agates
or otherwise described in either of the two schedules to ts-
Ides, calculated for time or distance, at the option of such
proprietor or driver; and that the rates and fares of all such
'hackney carriages shall be calculated by the hour or mile
only, and not by the day.
Rates and Fares to be paid for any hackney carriage hired
and taken any distance ; that is to say,
a. d.
For every hackney carriage drawn by two horses,
for any distance within and not exceeding 1 mile 0 I 0
And for any distance exceeding one mile, after
the rate of 6d. for every half mile, and for any
fteetional part of half a mile over and above
any number of half miles completed.
And for every hackney carriage drawn by one
horse only, two thirds only of the rates and
farce above mentioned.
Rates and Fates to be paid for any hackney carriage hired
and taken for any time • that is to say,
For every hackney carriage drawn by two horses :
For any time within and not exceeding thirty
minutes ... 0 1 •
Above 50 minutes, net exceeding 45 minutes 0 I
Above 45 minutes, not exceeding one boot 0 2 -2
And for any further time exceeding
_one hour, then
after the rate and proportion of 6d. for every 16 •
minutes completed, and Bd. for any fractional
pan of the period of 15 minutes.
And for every hackney carriage drawn by one,
horse only, two-thirds only of the rates and •
fares above mentioned.
XXXII. That in case any hackney carriage, after haw
Ing been hired at any place, whether within or beyond the
limits of the metropolis as defined by this act, shall be die,
charged at any place beyond the said limits after. the Mae
of eight in the evening, and before five in the it
shall be lawful for the proprietor or driver of seek
carriage to demand and receive, over and above the papa
fare in respect of the distance or time for which the am*
shall have been hired or used, the full rate or fare frees lb.
place of such discharge to the nearest riot of the .ilI
limits, or to any standing of ken rcpt whore Ask
hackney carriage shall have baseball's/ma such llealespe
the option of the mien discharging thew" lei bteeselay
hackney carriage shall be hired and LM the fieggittY,
there discharged at a distance of four Mae ei'leseestrod
the said limits of the metropolis, in the .Mete, not
after the hour of eight in the evening. we Whin live in the
morning, it shall be lawful for the driver of such babas"
carriage to demand and receive for the return thereof front
the place of such discharge to the nearest point of the said
limits, or to any standing for hackney carriages beyond any
such limits where such hackney scarriages shall hove been
hired, at the option of the person discharging such hackney
carriage, for each and every mile the additionalrate or fare
of sixpence : Provided always, that no such additional rate,
or fare in•theekty.time &Wile payable for any less distance'
than four mike. _ .

4 s. d.

.X L Limits of the metroVeradefined. Whereas lenses
arriving in London by the Post are now delivered
without additional postage at any place comprised within a
circle, the radius of which is of the length of thrermiles
measured from the General Post Office • be knotted, that
the circumference of the said chyle shall for the purposes
of this act be deemed and called the limits of the man!
polis.
X LI. Persona refusing to pay the driver his fare, or fat
any damage, may be committed revisor,.
XLII. That if the driver of any hackney carriage shell
with'
refuse to go with soy person desirous of hiring his
for the legal and proper fare allowed by this act, or 0
driver shall refuse to drive such hackney carriage with.•
reasonable and proper expedition, or if the
or driver of any hackney carriage shall exact or dsmeadier.
the hire thereof more than the proper sum limited and al-.
lowed for the same by this act, every such proprietae or
driver so offending shall forfeit 40s.
X Llll. That no agreement whatever made with the dri-
ver of any hackney carriage for the payment of more than
his proper fare, as the same is allowed and limited by this
act, shall be binding on the person making the same,;but
that any such person may, notwithstanding any such aces.
meat, refuse, on discharging such hackney carriage, the
Ipayment of any sum beyond the proper fare as allowed and
imited- as aforesaid ; and in case soy person shall actually
pay to the driver of any hackney carriage, whether in pur.
seance of any such agreement or not, any sum exceeding
his said proper fare, which shall have been demanded or ye.
quired by such driver, the person paying the same shall be
entitled, on complaint made against such driver before
Justice of the peace, to recover back the sum paid
the proper fare, and moreover such driver shall forfeit, as a
penalty for such exaction, the sum of forty shillings; and in
default of the re-payment by such driver of such excess of
fare, of ofisyment of the said penalty, such Justice shall
forthwith commit such driver to prison, there to remain for
any time not exceeding one calendar month, sinless the
said excess of fare and the said penalty shall be sooner
paid.
XLIV. That it shall be lawful for any person to re-
quire the driver of any Hackney carriage to drive such
hackney carriage, for a stated sum of money, a distance in
the direction of such driver, and in case such driver shall
exceed the distance to which such person was entitled to be
driven fur such stated sum of money, such driver shalinot
exact or demand more than the sum for which he was as
engaged to drive, upon pain to forfeit forty shillings for
such offence.
XIS. That if the proprietor or driver of any hackney
'carriage, or if any o her person on his behalf and with his
knowledge and consent, shall agree beforehand with and
person biting such hackney carriage to take for any job
any sum less than the proper rate of fare allowed by this
act, such proprietor or driver shall not exact or demand fur
1 his tare more than the sum agreed for, upon pain to forfeit
forty shillings for such offence.
/ X LVI. Numbsr of persons to be carried in a hackney
carriage to be painted thereon. Penalty fur neglect, or tor
refusal to carry the number,lts.
XLVI I. Deposit to be made for carriages waiting.
Penalty on the driver refusing to wait, or to account for the
deposit, 40s. .
X Ll'l 11. Proprietors to provide check strings ; drivers to
hold sante in their hands. Penalty 20s.
XLIX. That' the driver of every hackney carriage
w:lerein any property whatever shall be left by' any person
hiring the saute shall, within four days next tater the same
shall have been so left, carry such property. in the state in
which he shall find the same, to the head office for stamps in
the city of. Westminster, •and shall there deposit and leore
the. same with the.. proper officer to be appointed by the
Commissioners of Stamps fur thatpurpose, upon pain that
'escry such driver making any default hereto shall.forteir
twenty panels; and the said officer whit w hock iairstich
prof erlr will: b: i':.,-c.ited shall forthwith enter 111 a book