28 TRAVELLING POLICE. 



A strict attention of POLICE, suppose an unexpensive Board established on pur- 

 pose, to the following regulations, might be attended with salutary effects, and at 

 least be preventive of a part of those accidents which, at present, tire of so 

 frequent occurrence. 



In (,'ase of the overthrow or breaking down of a public stage-coach, the conductor 

 of it, namely, the coachman, should be liable to a criminal prosecution, the responsi- 

 bility of the proprietors, with respect to pecuniary damages, remaining \nstatu, quo. 

 The punishment of the coachman, legally convicted of breach of duty, to consist of 

 imprisonment and incapacity to drive during a certain term, or for ever, according 

 to the merits of the case. Actions also to lie against proprietors for incapable or 

 vicioiiN horses, or for carriages out of repair and not road-worthy, or for loads too 

 high or t<M heavy to be conveyed to the journey's end with safety. Criminal prose- 

 cutions also in certain cases to be against proprietors. 





