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APPENDIX. 



In case of 

 disputes the 

 hirer may 

 reqixire the 

 driver to 

 drive to a 

 police court, 

 &c., or to a 

 police station. 



Penalty for 

 offences 

 against this 

 act for which 

 no i^enalty is 

 appointed. 



Meaning of 

 certain VFords 

 used in this 

 act. 



This act to 

 be construed 

 ■with 6 & 7 

 Vict. c. 86, 

 and 13 & 14 

 Vict. c. 7. 



Commence- 

 ment of act. 



city, or by a metropolitan police magistrate sitting at the 

 police court in Bow Street ; and in case of any dispute between 

 the hirer and driver of any hackney carriage, the hirer may 

 require the driver forthwith to drive to the nearest metropo- 

 litan police court or justice room, where complaint may be 

 made to the magistrate then sitting, who shall hear and de- 

 termine the same, without requiring any summons to be 

 issued for that purpose ; and if such dispute should arise at a 

 time when the police court or justice room shall not be open, 

 the hirer may require the driver to drive to the nearest police 

 station or justice room, where the complaint shall be entered, 

 and notice given to both parties that the matter in dispute 

 shall be heard by the magistrate at his next sitting. 



19. For every offence against the jirovisions of this act, for 

 which no special penalty is hereinbefore appointed, the 

 offender shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty 

 shillings, or in default of payment be imprisoned for any 

 time not exceeding One month in any gaol or house of correc- 

 tion within the jurisdiction of the magistrate before whom the 

 conviction shall take place. 



20. All things herein authorized to be done by the said 

 commissioners of police of the metropolis shall be done by 

 such one of the said commissioners as one of her majesty's 

 principal secretaries of state shall from time to time be pleased 

 to appoint; and the words "the limits of this act" shall in- 

 clude every part of the metropolitan police district (/) and 

 city of London. 



21. This act shall be construed as one act with the act 

 passed in the seventh year of the reign of her majesty queen 

 Victoria, chapter eighty-six, and the act passed in the thir- 

 teenth year of the reign of her majesty, chapter seven ; and 

 all the provisions of the said acts, except so far as is herein 

 otherwise provided, shall extend to this act, and to all things 

 done in execution of this act. 



22. This act shall commence and take effect from and after 

 the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 

 three, except as herein otherwise specially provided. 



(0 See 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, s. 4 ; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, 

 c. 127, s. 17, Appendix. 



s. 2; 16 & 17 Vict. 



