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duty, but must b'ear the words " taxed 

 cart" in some conspicuous part, and in 

 letters of not less than an inch in depth : 

 their cost must also be under 12/. Our 

 stage coaches, which travel to every part 

 of the kingdom, are, beyond compare, 

 superior to those of any other nation, 

 both for speed of travelling and accom- 

 modation. The legislature has wisely 

 restricted the numbers of inside and of 

 outside passengers. On the whole, they 

 perform their journies at the rate of 5 

 miles in the hour during summer, and 

 about 4 during the winter season. 

 .Taken on an average, the rates are from 

 4e^d. to 6d. per mile for inside passengers; 

 though in cases of competition they have 

 gone so low as 2d. The mail-coaches, 

 which carry the letters to and from the 

 General Post-Office, are of a very strong 

 build, and usually run 8, or even 9, miles 

 within the hour ; they are limited as to 

 the time in which each stage is to be per- 

 formed ; and the guard makes remarks as 

 to the condition of the cattle, the per- 

 formance of their duty, the accidental 

 delays and deviations, upon a printed 

 way-bill delivered with the bags at the 

 post-office; he notes every matter re- 

 lating to time, according to his time-piece, 

 which is always adjusted before he takes 

 leave. The mail-coaches are restricted 

 to four inside and two outside passen- 

 gers, besides the coachman and the 

 guard, both of whom wear the king's 

 livery; and the royal arms are borne 

 upon the centre pannels of the coach. 

 All the mail-coaches pass in review at 

 Buckingham-house, and St. James's, on 

 his Majesty's birth-day ; the guards and 

 drivers dressed in their new uniforms, 

 and the horses decked -with ribbons. 

 Every mail-coach, so soon as it arrives in 

 town, is sent to the overseer and con- 

 tractor at Mill-Bank, Westminster, where 

 it is strictly examined, the screws tight- 

 ened, axles greased, and every precaution 

 taken to guard against accident. 



COACHES, hackney- commissioners are 

 appointed to license and regulate them : 

 the proprietor of each coach to pay 10s. 

 per week. Each coach is to be numbered 

 on both sides, the altering of which incurs 

 a penalty of 51. The same penalty is in- 

 curred by driving or letting to hire a 

 coach without a license. Mourning- 

 coaches and hearses are within the act. 

 The horses in hackney-coaches must be 

 fourteen hands high. Coachmen com- 

 pelled to go in the day ten miles ; after 

 dark but two miles and a half on turn- 

 pike-roads; to have check-strings, under 

 the penalty of 5L 



The ?ate for a mile and a quarter, or 

 less, is 1*. from that to two, Is. &d. and 

 for each additional half mile entered up- 

 on, 6d. 



In reckoning by time, three quarters 

 of an hour, or less, is Is. between that and 

 an hour Is. 6d. one hour and twenty mi 

 nutes 2s. and for each additional twenty 

 minutes entered upon, 6d. For a day of 

 twelve hours, 14v. 6d. and 6d. for each 

 twenty minutes over. 



A coachman refusing to go, or exact- 

 ing more than his fare, forfeits from 10s. 

 to 3/. By misbehaviour or impudence 

 he incurs the same penalty, and subjects 

 his license to be revoked, and himself to 

 be committed to the house of correction. 

 Persons refusing to pay the fare, or de- 

 facing the coach, may be compelled by 

 a justice to make satisfaction. The 

 penalties may be recovered before the 

 aldermen of the city, and justices of the 

 peace, as well as before the commission- 

 ers. 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 24, 26, and 32, Geo. 

 III. 



COACHKS, stage : every person keeping 

 any public stage-coach shall pay, annual- 

 ly, 5s. for a license ; and keeping any 

 such public stage without a license, he 

 shall forfeit for every time such carriage 

 is used 101. No person licensed shall, by 

 virtue of one license, keep more than one 

 carriage, on r*enalty of 101. Every li- 

 censed Stage-coach shall pay 2^d. for eve- 

 ry mile it travels. Every person licensed 

 shall paint, on the outside pannel of each 

 door, his Christian and surname, with the 

 name of the place from whence he sets out* 

 and to which he is going, on pain of 10/. 

 Should he discontinue such carriage, he 

 shall give seven days previous notice, and 

 have such notice indorsed upon his li- 

 cense, and from thenceforth shall be no 

 longer chargeable. 



Drivers of stage-coaches are not to ad- 

 mit more than one outside passenger on 

 the box, and four on the roof of the 

 coach, on the penalty of 5s. for each pas- 

 senger at every turnpike-gate. 



COADUNATJE, in botany, the 52d or- 

 der of plants in Linnaeus' " Fragments of 

 a Natural Method," so named from the 

 general appearance of the seed-vesseJs, 

 which are numerous, and, being slightly 

 attached below, form altogether a single 

 fruit, in the shape of a sphere or cone, 

 the parts of which are easily separated 

 from one another. 



COAGULATION, is the property of 

 certain liquids becoming solid without 

 evaporation, and without their assuming 

 a crystalline form. The hardening of the 

 white of an egg, by mere heat, is an ex- 



