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APPENDIX. 



to appoint 

 persons to 

 enforce good 

 order at 

 liackney 

 carriage 

 stands, &c. 



Power to 

 commission- 

 ers, with 

 consent of 

 treasury, to 

 pay wages 

 to such per- 

 sons, and also 

 to direct water 

 rates to be 

 paid. 



Lamps to be 

 placed inside 

 metropolitan 

 stasre car- 



Printed bills, 

 &c. not to 

 be put on 

 metropolitan 

 stage or hack- 

 ney carriages, 

 so as to ob- 

 struct light, 

 &c. 



Advertising 

 vehicles, &c. 

 prohibited. 



enforce good order at the standings for liackney carriages (A) 

 and at the places at which metropolitan stage carriages or 

 hackney carriages shall call or ply for passengers, and at such 

 places of public resort within the metropolitan police district, 

 as they may deem necessary ; and the said commissioners may 

 from time to time make such orders and regulations as they 

 shall deem expedient, subject to the approval of one of her 

 majesty's principal secretaries of state given in writing re- 

 lative to the duties to be performed by such persons and the 

 places at which each shall act ; provided that the said com- 

 missioners shall not have authority to aj)point any such person 

 to act within or upon the premises belonging to any railway 

 company, unless with the consent of the directors of the com- 

 pany. 



13. The said commission.ers of police, subject to the appro- 

 bation of the commissioners of her majesty's treasiuy, shall 

 appoint wages to be paid to the said jDorsons appointed by 

 them to keep good order at the standings for hackney carriages 

 and at the places at which metropolitan stage carriages or 

 hackney carriages shall call or ply for passengers, and at such 

 places of public resort as they may deem necessary ; and the 

 said commissioners shall also, in such cases as they think 

 fit, direct the water-rates and the expenses of the necessary 

 apparatus for laying on the water at the standings for hackney 

 carriages and at places where metropoKtan stage carriages 

 usually call or ply for hire, to be paid. 



14. The proprietor of every metropolitan stage carriage 

 shall cause to be placed inside such carriage, a lamp, in such 

 a position and manner as shall be directed by the said com- 

 missioners of police ; and the conductor, or, if there be no 

 conductor, the driver of such carriage shall keep the said 

 lamp properly lighted whenever such carriage shall be used 

 to ply for hire or carry passengers at any time after sunset 

 and before sunrise. 



15. It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any metro- 

 politan stage or hackney carriage to suffer any notice, adver- 

 tisement, or printed bill, or any names, letters or numbers, to 

 appear upon the outside of any such carriage, in such a 

 manner as to obstruct the light or ventilation of such carriage, 

 or on the inside of any such carriage, in such a position that 

 any such notice, advertisement or printed bill shall obstruct 

 the light or ventilation of such carriage or cause annoyance 

 to any passenger therein. 



16. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry about on 

 any carriage or on horseback or on foot in any thoroughfare 

 or pubHc place within the limits of this act, to the obstruction 

 or annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers, any picture, 



(/*) See 13 Vict. c. 7, s. 4. 



