STATUTES. 525 



11. The driver of every hackney carriage within the limits Property left 

 of this act wherein any jDroperty shall be left by any person in hackney 

 shall within twenty-four hours carry such projjerty, if not carriages to 

 sooner claimed by the owner thereof, in the state in which he ^^ ^eposited 

 shall find the same, to the nearest police station, and shall office^ ^° ^^ 

 there deposit and leave the same with the inspector or other 

 ofiicer on duty, uj)on pain that every such driver making any Penalty on 

 default herein shall be liable to a penalty not more than Ten driver for 

 2}ou)uls, or at the discretion of the magistrate may be impri- <iefault. 

 soned for any time not exceeding one month ; and the said 

 officer with whom any such property shall be deposited shall 

 forthwith enter in a book to be kej)t for that purj)ose the 

 descrij)tion of such property, and the name and address of the 

 driver who shall bring the same, and the day on which it 

 shall be brought ; and the property so entered shall be re- 

 turned to the person who shall prove, to the satisfaction of the 

 commissioners of police, that the same belonged to him, such 

 person previously pajang all expenses incurred, together with 

 such reasonable sum to the di-iver who brought the same as 

 the said commissioners shall award : provided always, that if Property not 

 such property shall not be claimed by and proved to belong claimed to be 

 to some person within one year after the same shall have been disposed of. 

 dej)osited, the said commissioners shall cause such property to 

 be sold or otherwise disposed of, and the proceeds thereof to 

 be paid over to the receiver-general of inland revenue, to be 

 carried to the public account, all expenses incurred about such 

 proj)erty, together with such reasonable sum to the driver who 

 brought the same as the said commissioners shall award, being 

 first paid thereout ; and all property left by any passenger in Penalty on 

 any metropolitan stage carriage shall be given up to the con- refusing or 

 ductor of such carriage, or, if there be no conductor, to the neglecting to 



driver, upon pain of a penalty of Ten pounds, to be paid bv ^^^? "? P^°' 

 \e • 1 i- J. • 1 perty left in 



any person refusmg or neglectmg to give up any such pro- g^ao-e car- 



perty belonging to another person ; and the conductor or riages. 

 driver of every such carriage to whom any such property shall 

 be given up, or who shall himself find it in the carriage, shall 

 within twenty-four hours carry the property, if not sooner 

 claimed by the owner thereof, in the state in which he shall 

 find the same, to the nearest police station, and shall there 

 deposit and leave the same with the inspector or other ofiicer 

 on duty, upon pain that every such driver or conductor making 

 default herein shall be liable to a penalty not more than Te)i 

 potmds, or at the discretion of the magistrate may be im- 

 prisoned for any time not exceeding One month ; and the pro- 

 perty so deposited by any conductor or driver shall be dealt 

 with in the same manner as property left in hackney carriages 

 and deposited by the drivers of such carriages. 



12. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners of police, ^ . . 

 from time to time to appoint a sufficient number of fit men to g^g of^^olice' 



