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APPENDIX. 



Persons desi- 

 rous of ob- 

 taining a 

 licence to 

 keep a hack- 

 ney carriage, 

 &c. to make 

 application 

 to commis- 

 sioners of 

 police, wIlo, 

 if carriage is 

 found fit, 

 shall grant a 

 certificate. 



No licence to 

 be granted by 

 board of in- 

 land revenue 

 •without siich 

 certificate. 



Commission- 

 ers of police 

 may cause 

 carriages, 

 &c. to be in- 

 spected, and 

 if not in fit 

 condition 

 may suspend 

 licences and 

 recall stamp 

 office plate. 



Notice to be 

 given to in- 

 land revenue. 



Penalty for 

 using carriage 

 not in fit con- 

 dition. 



tlie advice and consent of tlie lords spiritual and temporal, 

 and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by 

 tlie authority of the same, that — 



1. From and after the first day of October next every per- 

 son desirous of obtaining a licence to keep, use, and let to 

 hii'e any metropolitan stage or hackney carriage (o) within 

 the limits of this act (Z') must apply in writing to the com- 

 missioners of police of the metropolis, in order that they may 

 cause an inspection to be made of every carriage to be kept, 

 used, or let to hire by virtue of such licence, and upon such 

 application the said commissioners shall cause an inspection 

 to be made of every such carriage, and if such carriage or 

 carriages shall be found by the said commissioners to be in a 

 fit and proper condition for public use, they shall grant a cer- 

 tificate to that effect, and shall specify in such certificate the 

 number of persons to be carried in and by such carriage, in 

 the form given in schedule (B.) to this act annexed, and 

 upon production of such certificate at the office of the board 

 of inland revenue, a licence shall be granted ; but it shall not 

 be lawful for the said board of inland revenue to grant or 

 issue any licence for any metropolitan stage or hackney car- 

 riage, within the limits of this act, unless the person applying 

 for the same shall produce such certifi.cate as aforesaid. 



2. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners of police to 

 cause an inspection to be made, as often as they deem it 

 necessarj^, of all metropolitan stage and hackney carriages, 

 and of the horse or horses used in drawing the same, within 

 the limits of this act ; and if any such carriage, or the horse 

 or horses used in drawing the same, shall at any time be in a 

 condition unfit for public use, the said commissioners shall 

 give notice in writing accordingly to the proprietor thereof, 

 which notice shall be personally served on such proprietor, or 

 delivered at his usual place of residence ; and if, after notice 

 as aforesaid, any proprietor shall use or let to hire such car- 

 riage as a metropolitan stage or hackney carriage, or use or 

 let to hire such horse or horses whilst in a condition unfit for 

 public use, the said commissioners shall have power to suspend, 

 for such time as they may deem proper, the licence of the 

 proprietor of such carriage, and to recall and take away the 

 stamp office plate belonging to the same, and to retain the 

 same during the suspension of such licence ; and a notice 

 shall be given to the board of inland revenue, according to 

 the form in the schedule (C.) to this act annexed, in every 

 case by the said commissioners of the suspension of any such 

 licence, and of the time for which it is suspended. 



3. Every proprietor or driver of a metropolitan stage or 

 hackney carriage who shall use or let to hire within the limits 



(a) See 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, s. 2. 

 {h) See post, s. 20 ; 16 & 17 Vict. 



c. 127, s. 13, Appendix. 



