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APPENDIX. 



As to distance 

 drivers of 

 hackney car- 

 riages shall be 

 required to 

 drive. 



Driver to de- 

 liver a ticket 

 to hirer of 

 carriao-e. 



Number of 

 persons to be 

 carried to be 

 painted or 

 marked on 

 hackney 

 carriaa:e. 



As to quantity 

 of luggapfe to 

 be carried 

 "without extra 

 charge. 



of tlie said commissioners of police ; and it shall be lawful for 

 the said commissioners to cause to be placed or erected at the 

 several standings for hackney carriages or elsewhere within 

 the metropolitan district, as they may deem convenient, tables 

 of distances and fares, and such other information as may be 

 useful to persons hiring such carriage. 



7. The driver of every hackney carriage which shall ply for 

 hire (e) at any place within the limits of this act shall (unless 

 such di'iver have a reasonable excuse, to be allowed by the 

 justice before whom the matter shall be brought in question), 

 drive such hackney carriage to any place to which he shall be 

 required by the hirer thereof to drive the same, not exceeding 

 six miles from the place where the same shall have been 

 hired ( /'), or for any time not exceeding one hour from the 

 time when hired : provided always, that when any hackney 

 carriage shall have been hired by time, the driver thereof may 

 be required to drive at any rate not exceeding four miles 

 ■within one hour, and if the driver of such carriage shall be 

 required to drive more than four miles within one hour, then 

 in every such case the di'iver thereof shall be entitled to de- 

 mand, in addition to the fare regulated by time in schedule 

 (A.) to this act annexed, for every mile or any part thereof 

 exceeding four miles, the fare regulated by distance as set 

 forth in the same schedule. 



8. Every driver of a hackney carriage within the limits of 

 this act shall, on each occasion when such carriage shall be 

 hired, deliver to the hirer thereof a card, on which shall be 

 printed, in legible letters and figures, the words " hackney 

 carriage," and the number of the stamp office plate affixed on 

 such hackney carriage, or such other words or figures as the 

 said commissioners of police may direct (y). 



9. The proprietor of every hackney carriage within the 

 limits of this act shall put up and at all times keep distinctly 

 painted or marked on such carriage, in such a manner and in 

 such a position as shall be directed by the said commissioners 

 of police, the number of persons to be carried thereby as spe- 

 cified in the certificate granted by the said commissioners for 

 such hackney carriage, and the driver of any such hackney 

 carriage shall, if required by the hirer thereof, carry in and 

 by such carriage the number of persons painted or marked 

 thereon, or any less number of persons. 



10. The driver of every hackney carriage within the limits 

 of this act shall carry in or upon such carriage a reasonable 

 quantity of luggage for every person hiring such carriage 

 without any additional charge, except as provided in sche- 

 dule (A.) to this act annexed. 



(e) See 1 & 2 Will. 4, 

 (/) See 16 & 17 Vict. ( 

 Iff) See post, s. 17. 



. 22, s. 35. 

 127, s. 13, Appendix. 



