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of this act any carriage as a metropolitan stage or hackney- 

 carriage which has not been certified by the said commis- 

 sioners of police to be in a fit and proper condition for public 

 use, or -who shall use or let to hire within the limits of this 

 act any carriage as a metropolitan stage or hackney carriage 

 for which such a certificate had been granted, after notice 

 given to him as hereinbefore required by the said commis- 

 sioners that such carriage was no longer in a fit and proper 

 condition for pubKc use, shall be liable to a penalty not ex- 

 ceeding Three pounds for each day that he shall so use or let 

 to hire such carriage, or in default of payment may be impri- 

 soned for any time not exceeding one month. 



4. The proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage within As to rates 

 the limits of this act shall be entitled to demand and take for and fares to 

 the hire of such carriage the fares set forth in the schedule (A.) ^^ taken for 

 to this act annexed : provided always, that when the j)ro- ria"-eT^ ^^^' 

 prietor or driver of any hackney carriage to be paid a fare ° 

 calculated according to the distance shall be required by the 



hirer thereof to stop such carriage for fifteen minutes, or for 



any longer time, it shall be lawful for the proprietor or driver 



to demand and receive from the hirer so requiring him to stop 



a further sum (above th,e fare to which he shall be entitled 



calculated according to the distance) of sixpence for every 



fifteen minutes completed that he shall have been so 



stopped (c) ; and no proj^rietor or driver shall demand or re- No back fare 



ceive over and above the said fare any sum, for or by way of *o ^° taken 



back fare, for the return of such carriage from the place at *^^' "^™anded. 



which such carriage shall be discharged (f/). 



5. The proprietor of every hackney carriage within the Table of fares 

 limits of this act shall put up, and at all times keep, distinctly *<? be put up 

 painted or marked, in such a manner and in such a position distinctly 



as shall be directed by the said commissioners of police, both ou^tsjc^jf qj 

 on the inside and outside of such hackney carriage, the hackney- 

 amount of fare according to distance and time which may carriages, 

 legally be demanded and taken from the hirer of such car- 

 riage ; and the driver of every hackney carriage within the Driver to pro- 

 limits of this act shall have with him at all times when plying <iiice book of 

 for hire a book or table in such form as shall be directed by '^^'^^\ when 

 the said commissioners of police of the fares for the hire of ^^1^^° • 

 such carriage, which book or table the driver shall produce 

 when required for the information of any person hiring or in- 

 tending to hire such carriage. 



6. In case of disputes as to the fare to be calculated As to settle- 

 according to the distance, any table or book signed by the ment of dis- 

 said commissioners of police shall, on proof of such signature, Pyt®^ as to 

 be deemed and taken to be conclusive evidence of all the dis- i^*^^^^^- 

 tances therein stated to have been measured by the authority 



(c) See post, s. 7. 



\d) See 16 & 17 Vict. c. 127, s. 13, Appendix. 



