The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

PAYMENT FOR DETENTION.

50. If any person engaging a carrier shall afterwards detain
such carrier more than half an hour, either before or without
despatching him or her with goods, such person so engaging
shall pay for such half-hour's detention threepence, and for
each and every subsequent quarter of an hour of detention, be-
fore or without despatching, the further sum of twopence.

PERSONS EMPLOYING CARRIERS TO PAY PROPER
RATES.

51. No person having engaged or employed any carrier shall
refuse to pay, on demand, to such carrier the amount clue ac-
cording to such rates or prices. And every person offending
against this bye-law shall forfeit for the first offence the sum of
five shillings; for a second offence, alleged and proved as such,
the sum oten shillings; and for any offence subsequent to a
second offence, alleged and proved as such, the sum of twenty
shillings.
NO CARRIER, UNLESS BEFORE ENGAGED, TO REFUSE TO
CARRY ARTICLES PURCHASED IN THE MARKET.
5?. No carrier, unless before engaged, shall refuse or delay
to take end csrry any article purchased in any market, and not
exceeding in eigit forty pounds. And every person offending
against th s ...ye-law shall forfeit for the first offence the sum of
two shEing and sixpence ; for a second offence, alleg,d and
proved as s Ich, the sum of five shillings •, and for any offence
subsequent t ) a second offence, al;eged and proved as such, the
sum of ten s iillings.

CARRIERS TO CONVEY ARTICLES DELIVERED TO THEM

CAREFULLY.

M. Every carrier shall carry she articles delivered to him or
her carefully and with the utmost diligence, and duly deliver
the same according to the directions to him or her given, and
every carrier shall be answerable for any loss or damage to the
goods intrusted to him or her, and in default of making com-
pensation for the same, shall be dismissed the service. And
every person offending against this bye-law shall forfeit for the
first offence the sum of two shillings and sixpence; for a se-
cond offence, alleged and proved as such, the sum of live shil-
lings; and for any offence subsequent to a second offence al-
leged and proved as such, the sum of ten shillings. ,
CARRIERS GUILTY OF SECOND OFFENCE MAY BE DISMISSED.
54. If any carrier shall be guilty of a second or any subse-
quent offence against these bye-laws, he or
.she may be dis-
missed the market service, in addition to suffering the penalty
imposed by these bye-laws for such second or subsequent of-
fence.
PENALTY ON PERSONS NOT COMPLYING WITH DIRECTIONS

OF SUPERINTENDENT.

55. No person resorting to any market as a buyer or seller,
or as a carrier, shall at any time refuse, neglect, or omit to
comply with any reasonable direction of the superintendent of
the market or his assistant, for carrying any bye-law into full
effect. And every person offending against this bye-law shall
forfeit for the first offence the sum of five shillings ; for a se-
cond offence, alleged and proved as such, the sum of ten shil-
lings ; and for any offence subsequent to a second offence, al-
leged and proved as such, the sum of twenty shillings.
SWEARING, &C.
56. No person resorting to any market as a buyer or seller,
or as a carrier, shall in any market make use of any cursing or
swearing, or of any violent, obscene, abusive, disgusting, or
offensive language. And every person offending aallinst this
bye-law shall forfeit for the first offence the sum of- five shil-
lings; for a second offence, alleged and proved as such, the
sum of ten shillings ; and for any offence subsequent to a se-
cond offence, alleged and proved as such, the sum of twenty
shillings.