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APPENDIX. 



SCHEDULE (C). 



CERTIFICATE. 



I, do hereby certify, that I have caused the carriage now used 



and let to hire as a \_state whether a metropolitan stage or hackney carriagcl, 

 and known by the following- marks or description \here state marks or 

 description bij which the carriage may be identified'\, to be inspected, and find 

 the said carriage not to be in a fit and proper condition for public use ; 

 and I do hereby suspend the licence granted to to keep and use the 



said carriage as a [_state whether a metropolitan stage or hackney carriage~\i.ox 

 the period of from this date. 



(Signed) , 



Commissioner of the police of 

 the metropolis. 



Is. a mile to 

 be paid for 

 every mile 

 beyond the 

 circumference 

 of a circle 

 four miles 

 from Charing 

 Cross if car- 

 riage be dis- 

 charged 

 beyond such 

 circumfer- 

 ence. 



Addition to 

 the fare to be 

 paid for each 

 person above 

 two. 



When car- 

 riage hii-ed 

 by time, &d. 

 to be paid for 

 every fifteen 

 minutes, 

 or portion 

 thereof, over 

 the hour. 



Proprietors 

 of hackney 



16 & 17 Vict. Cap. 127. 



An Act to reduce the Duties payable in respect of Hackney 

 Carriages used in the Metropolis, and to amend the Laios 

 relatiny to the granting of Licences and Payment of Duties 

 in respect of Metropolitan Stage and Hackney Carriages, 

 and to make Provision as to the Charge for the Hire of 

 Hackney Carriages in certain Cases. 



13. It shall be lawful for the driver of any hackney car- 

 riage within the limits of this act to charge One shilling per 

 mile for every mile (or part of a mile) which he shall be 

 required to drive beyond the circumference of a circle the 

 radius of which shall be four miles from Charing Cross, pro- 

 vided such carriage shall be discharged beyond such circum- 

 ference, anything contained in the thirty -third chapter of an 

 act of the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the reign of her 

 jDresent majesty, or in the schedule thereto, notwithstanding. 



14. Whenever more than two persons shall be conveyed by 

 any hackney carriage drawn by one horse only, a sum of Six- 

 pence for each person above the number of two shall be paid 

 for the whole hiring in addition to the fare now directed to 

 be paid for two persons under the said act of the sixteenth 

 and seventeenth years of the reign of her present majesty, 

 chapter thirty-three ; and two children under ten years old 

 shall be considered as one adult person for the purposes of 

 this clause. 



15. When any hackney carriage within the limits of this 

 act hired for a fare to be paid according to time shall be hired 

 or used by the hirer thereof for any longer time than one 

 hour, Sixpence shall be paid for every fifteen minutes, or any 

 portion of fifteen minutes not completed, above one hour. 



16. The proprietor of every hackney carriage or metropo- 

 litan stage carriage licensed to ply for hire within the limits 

 of this act who shall withdraw his carriage from hire for two 



