CLEANSING means of preventing disagreeable or hurtful effects therefrom, as shall be directed by the local board, or any of their authorised officers. OF FOOT WAYS, &c, Penalty for neglect of "byelaws. III. Any person offending against any of the above byelaws, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a penalty not exceeding 5., and in case of a continuing offence, a further penalty not exceeding the sum of 40s. for each day after written notice of the offence from the local board or their authorised officer. HACKNEY CARRIAGES. Conduct of drivers. Drivers not to stand or loiter in streets. driver to have copy Local Government Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 98. s. 44) (a). BYELAWS FOR THE REGULATION OF HACKNEY CARRIAGES. NOTE.-These byelaws should be preceded by a reprint of sections 37 to 68, both inclusive, of the Towns Police Clauses Act, 1849 (b), with respect to hackney carriages, incorporated with the Local Government Act, 1858, by the 44th section of that act. (A) Byelaws for regulating the conduct of the proprietors and drivers of hackney carriages plying within the prescribed distance; determining whether such drivers shall wear any, and what badges; and regulating the hours within which they may exercise their calling. I. Every driver of any such carriage shall be sober, and conduct himself in an orderly and respectful manner, and obey the reasonable orders of the person or persons hiring his carriage; and shall at all times, when driving or plying for hire, wear, in such manner as shall be appointed by the local board, a badge (to be provided by the local board), having the number of his licence marked thereon; and no driver shall canvass for fares either by calling out, or drawing his carriage off the stand for that purpose. II. No driver of any such carriage shall stand or loiter therewith in any of the streets when not hired (except on the public stands). III. The owner of any such carriage, at the time of obtaining a licence Owner and for the same, and every driver of any such carriage at the time of registering his licence, shall procure, either with or without charge, as the local board shall determine, a copy of these byelaws, certified by the of byelaws, signature of the clerk, and with the name of the owner or driver to whom the same shall respectively be delivered, and the number of his, her, or their licence written distinctly thereon. &c. And to produce such copy, &c., when required. IV. The owner and driver respectively shall at all times have a copy of these byelaws, so certified as aforesaid, (and also the table of distancës,)` ready to produce, and shall produce the same for perusal and inspection by any person hiring a carriage, and shall truly point out to such person the byelaw applicable to the case or dispute which may have arisen between such person and such owner or driver. And every driver shall at all times when plying for hire have with him the duplicate of his licence ready to produce, and upon demand shall produce and exhibit the same to any person hiring his carriage, or to any duly authorised officer of the district. V. The owner of any such carriage shall, at the request of any person who may have hired the same, or of any officer of the local board having authority in that behalf, declare and make known the name and place of abode of the driver of such carriage, provided such request be made within seven days from the hiring thereof. VI. The driver of any such carriage taking up or setting down a passenger at any place of public worship, or public amusement, or at any *This will not be required in most cases. In large towns and districts, however, it will be found useful. (a) See this section, p. 471. (b) See these sections, p. 240. HACKNEY public meeting within the district, or who is waiting for such purpose, shall act under the direction of the officers who may be on duty at such CARRIAGES. place or places, as to the taking up, or setting down, or waiting for any sengers at passengers, and as to the order and place in which any carriage shall public stand, and shall perform his duty in a careful and quiet manner, and shall places. not push into or get out of the line or position fixed for the carriages, so as to endeavour to arrive at his place of destination before any other carriage, the driver whereof, from its position, would have a prior right to take up or set down passengers. (B) Byelaws for regulating the manner in which the number of each carriage, corresponding with the number of its licence, shall be displayed; and (C) Regulating the number of persons to be carried, how such number is to be shown, what number of horses to draw the carriage, the placing of check-strings, and how such carriages are to be furnished. VII. The number of the licence and the number of persons to be Number of licence and carried in the carriage shall be painted on the outside of every carriage in of persons figures of not less than two inches in height, and of proportionate breadth, to be carin such position as the local board may direct, and such number shall be ried to be kept legible and undefaced during all the time the carriage shall ply and painted on be used for hire. carriages. VIII. The owner of every such carriage shall, in order to enable the Bell or hirer to communicate with the driver, provide either a bell, of such con- checkstring struction, and fixed in such a position, as shall be approved of and directed by the local board, or a check-string, which shall at all times be ready and fit for use. to be affixed to carriage. &c. IX. The owner of every such carriage shall at all times have the same Carriage to in good order, with the harness perfect and in good condition, and the be kept in glasses and frames of the same whole, and the leathers attached to the good order, frames of sufficient length, with two good and sufficient lamps ready for lighting and to be lighted at such times as may be directed by the local board, or by the hirer of such carriage, and the inside of the said carriage clean, and in good repair and order; the whole ready and sufficient for duty, with driver, and horse, or horses, fit to perform any job in such time as may be reasonably required. [And shall furnish for every such carriage a flag to be fixed at the top of such carriage, with the inscription, "for hire," which shall be hoisted when the said carriage is not engaged, and lowered when the same is hired.]* passengers. X. Infants carried in the arms or on the lap, or one child not so Children carried, but under seven years of age, and accompanied by an adult, shall being not be charged for as passengers; but two children under seven years of age, not so carried, shall be charged for as one adult passenger, and so on in the same proportion for any greater number of such children. (D) Byelaws for fixing the stands for such carriages, and the distance they must take passengers, not exceeding the prescribed distance. XI. Every carriage licensed by the local board to ply for hire within the Stands for district and five miles from of the district, shall be placed, when carriages. plying for hire and not actually hired, on some one of the stands or places hereinafter mentioned, and not elsewhere; that is to say, (List of Stands). XII. The distance travelled shall be computed from the stand or place Computawhere the carriage may be engaged or hired, and shall extend to any *This regulation will be found useful where great numbers of carriages are licensed. tion of distances. HACKNEY CARRIAGES. Table of fares to be painted on carriages. Table of fares to be fixed inside of carriages and tickets to be delivered to hirers. distance not exceeding five miles from the district to be computed from within the said district. (E) Byelaws for fixing the fares, as well for time as distance, and for securing the due publication of such fares. XIII. The following shall be the fares charged for the hire of carriages licensed by the local board, by distance and by time respectively, XIV. On the outside of every carriage licensed, and in such position as shall be approved of by the local board, there shall be painted a notice of the rate of fares at which the owner is licensed to ply for hire, in letters of not less than one inch in height, and in figures of not less than two inches in height; and such notice shall be kept legible and undefaced during all the time the carriage shall ply and be used for hire. XV. There shall be also printed or painted on a card or plate, subject to the approval of the local board, and fixed in some conspicuous place within the carriage, a notice of the number of licence and the rate of fares for which the owner is licensed to ply for hire (and also the following notice, viz., "Driver is required in all cases to give the hirer, on entering the vehicle, a ticket, and to produce byelaws on demand.”)* And such number (and notice) shall be so affixed and kept legible and undefaced during all the time the carriage shall ply and be used for hire. The owner of every such carriage shall provide, and the driver shall deliver to every person hiring a carriage, on entering the same, a printed ticket in the following or such other form as the local board may from time to time order and direct, and on such ticket the rate of fares at which the carriage plies for hire, in the form stated in the licence, shall be printed. Property left in carriages. (As in Licence.) (F) Byelaws for securing the safe custody and re-delivery of any property accidentally left in carriages, and fixing the charge to be made in respect thereof. XVI. In case of property being left in any such carriage by any person who may have hired or used the same, such property shall, within twelve hours after being so found in the carriage, be taken, in the state in which it was found, to and be there deposited for reclamation; and *These precautions against overcharge are only required in large and populous districts. the driver depositing such property shall be entitled to payment for the HACKNEY time occupied in bringing it to the place of deposit at the rate chargeable CARRIAGES. by time for the carriage driven by hire. XVII. The penalty for the breach or non-observance of any of the fore- Penalty for going byelaws shall in every case be any sum not exceeding forty breach, &c., of byelaws. shillings. COMMON LODGING HOUSES. Byelaws made and ordained by the local board of health of the borough COMMON LODGING I. Every person keeping or intending to keep, take, or open any lodging- Application house within the limits of the said borough or district shall, on or before for licence. 18 or if such person shall not previous to day of the II. Every person who shall in making such application knowingly make Penalty for any false statement regarding any of the particulars required to be stated false statein such application shall for every such offence forfeit and pay such sum as shall be hereinafter provided. ment. III. The keeper of every common lodging-house shall cause the windows Ventilation. of every sleeping-room in such lodging-house to be kept open to the full width thereof, from nine to eleven o'clock in the morning and from two till four o'clock in the afternoon of every day, unless prevented by tempestuous weather, or by the illness of any inmate of such room; and during the time the windows are opened as aforesaid he shall cause the bedclothes of every bed in such room to be turned down and exposed to the air. IV. Such lodging-house keeper shall cause the floor of every room in Sweeping. such lodging-house to be thoroughly swept once (at least) in each day, before ten in the morning. V. Such lodging-house keeper shall cause the floor of every room in Washing, such lodging-house to be well washed on Friday in every week before twelve at noon. bed-clothes. VI. Such lodging-house keeper shall cause such lodging-house to be Lime washthoroughly cleansed, and the walls and ceiling of every room to be well ing, &c. and sufficiently lime-washed, twice (at least) in every year during the first Cleansing of weeks of the months of April and October; and the blankets, rugs, bedclothes, and covers used in such lodging-house shall be kept in a clean and wholesome state, for which purpose the blankets, rugs, bed-clothes, and covers used in such lodging-house are to be thoroughly cleansed and scoured at least four times every year; that is to say, at least once some time during the first week of each of the several months of March, June, September, and December. (a) These may easily be adapted to the provisions of the Common Lodging Houses Acts by the local authority.-A.N.] E E COMMON LODGING VII. Such lodging-house keeper shall cause every room in such lodginghouse to be ventilated to the satisfaction of the officer of health of the local board, who shall examine such room, and direct what method of ventilation Ventilation. is to be adopted therein. Notice of fever. &c. Precautions. Water supply. Waterclosets. Limitation VIII. In case of fever or any other infectious or contagious disorder occurring in any such lodging-house, the keeper of such lodging-house shall forthwith give notice thereof to the officer of health, that he may inspect the same, and direct any disinfecting process which he may deem necessary and effectual; and the keeper of such lodging-house shall cause the blankets and bed-clothes used by any person affected by such disorder to be thoroughly cleansed and scoured, and the bedding used by such person to be fumigated, and if the same consists of shavings or straw to be burned immediately after the removal of the person so affected, in such manner as may from time to time be ordered by the officer of health. IX. Such lodging-house keeper shall provide such accommodation for washing, together with such a supply of water, for the use of the lodgers, as shall be satisfactory to the officer of health. X. Every such lodging-house keeper shall be bound to furnish or provide such accommodation in the way of soil-pans or waterclosets for his lodgers as shall be certified to the local board of health by their officer of health to be sufficient, and shall constantly keep them free from offensive smell, and in such a state as the officer of health shall certify to be satisfactory. XI. No keeper of such lodging-house shall receive in such house, or in of numbers. any room thereof, a greater number of lodgers or other persons than shall from time to time be fixed by the local board on the report of their officer of health, and expressed in a ticket to be signed by such officer, which ticket shall be according to the form contained in the schedule to these byelaws annexed, and marked B.; and the keeper of such lodging-house shall hang up in a conspicuous part of each room into which lodgers are received a like ticket, stating the number of lodgers allowed to be received, not less than 250 cubic feet being allowed for each inmate or lodger; and when the district in which any such lodging-house is situated is visited or threatened by any epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, such a reduction of the number of inmates of each room shall be made from the number which may be accommodated in ordinary seasons as the officer of health may direct. Regulations XII. The keeper of every such lodging-house shall apply to the local a to tickets. board of health for an adequate supply of the said tickets; and every such lodging-house keeper, Who shall neglect or omit to apply to the local board of health for as many of the said tickets as there are sleeping-rooms in such lodginghouse; or Who shall omit, neglect, or refuse to place, affix, and continue one of the said tickets in a conspicuous part of every sleeping-room in such lodging-house; or Who shall remove or deface such ticket, or permit the same to be removed or defaced, unless by the order of the local board or of one of their authorised officers; or Who shall omit or neglect, in case of such ticket being lost, defaced, or destroyed, to apply to the local board of health within twenty-four hours thereafter for another ticket in lieu thereof; or Who shall neglect to have the number of each sleeping-room painted on the door thereof, and a corresponding number printed or written on the ticket intended for such room; or Who shall neglect or refuse to produce any of such tickets to any authorised officer of the local board, or to deliver the same to such officer on demand, |