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placard, notice or advertisement, wlietlier written, printed or 

 painted uj)on or posted or attached to any part of such carriage 

 or on any board or otherwise. 



17. The driver or conductor of any metropolitan stage car- Drivers and 

 riage or the driver of any hackney carriage, who shall respec- conductors 

 tively commit any of the f ollowina: offences within the limits ?.. ™6*™P0" 

 of this act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty carriao-es" 

 shillings for each oiience, or, in default of payment, to im- and drivers 

 prisonment for any time not exceeding one calendar month (j) : of hackney 



1 . Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall demand carnages, 



or take more than the proper fare as set forth in sche- penalties for 

 dule (A.) to this act annexed, or who shall refuse to offences herein 

 admit and carry in his carriage the number of persons named, 

 painted or marked on such carriage or specified in the 

 certificate granted by the said commissioners of police 

 in respect of such carriage, or who shall refuse to carry 

 by his carriage a reasonable quantity of luggage for 

 any person hiring or intending to hire such carriage ; 



2. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall refuse to 



diive such carriage to any place within the limits of 

 this act (/:), not exceeding six miles, to which he shall 

 be required to drive any person hiring or intending to 

 hire such carriage, or who shall refuse to drive any 

 such carriage for any time not exceeding one hour, if so 

 required by any person hiring or intending to hire such 

 carriage, or who shall not drive the same at a reason- 

 able and proper speed, not less than six miles an hour, 

 except in cases of unavoidable delay, or when required 

 by the hirer thereof to drive at any slower pace ; 



3. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall ply for hire 



with any carriage or horse which shall be at the time 

 imfit for public use, or who shall refuse or neglect to 

 deliver to the hirer of his carriage a ticket with the 

 number of the stamp ofiice plate on such carriage 

 printed thereon. 



18. It shall be lawful for any one of the police magis- Power to 

 trates at any of the metropolitan police courts, to hear and police magis- 

 determine all offences against the provisions of this act, and ti'^tes or 

 also all disputes or causes of complaint that may arise out of •'"^ '°^/ "^ ® 

 the same ; or if the offence, dispute or cause of complaint ^ud deter- 

 shall be committed or occur in any place not comprised within mine offences, 

 the limits of a police court district, the same may be heard 



and determined by two justices of the peace for the county ; 

 or if the offence, dispute or cause of complaint shall be com- 

 mitted or occiu" within the city of London, the same shall be 

 heard and determined by one justice of the peace for the said 



(0 See 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 22, s. 42. 

 [k) See 16 & 17 Vict. c. 127, s. 17. 



