such for persons, and also to direct water rates to be paid. Lamps to be placed inside metropolitan stage carriages. Printed bills, &c. not to be put on metropolitan stage or hackney carriages, so as to obstruct light, &c. Advertising vehicles, &c. prohibited. Drivers and conductors of metropolitan stage carriages, and drivers of hackney carriages, liable to penalties for offences herein named. passengers, and at such places of public resort as they may deem necessary; and the said Commissioners shall also, in such cases as they think fit, direct the water rates and the expenses of the necessary apparatus for laying on the water at the standings for hackney carriages and at places where metropolitan stage carriages usually call or ply for hire to be paid. 14. The proprietor of every metropolitan stage carriage shall cause to be placed inside such carriage a lamp, in such a position and manner as shall be directed by the said Commissioners of Police; and the conductor, or if there be no conductor the driver, of such carriage shall keep the said lamp properly lighted whenever such carriage shall be used to ply for hire or carry passengers at any time after sunset and before sunrise. 15. It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any metropolitan stage or hackney carriage to suffer any notice, advertisement, or printed bill, or any names, letters, or numbers, to appear upon the outside of any such carriage in such a manner as to obstruct the light or ventilation of such carriage, or on the inside of any such carriage in such position that any such notice, advertisement, or printed bill shall obstruct the light or ventilation of such carriage or cause annoyance to any passenger therein. 16. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry about on any carriage or on horseback or on foot, in any thoroughfare or public place within the limits of this Act, to the obstruction or annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers, any picture, placard, notice, or advertisement, whether written, printed, or painted upon or posted or attached to any part of such carriage, or on any board, or otherwise. 17. The driver or conductor of any metropolitan stage carriage, or the driver of any hackney carriage, who shall respectively commit any of the following offences within the limits of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each offence 1. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall demand or take 2. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall refuse to drive pace: 3. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall ply for hire with any carriage or horse which shall be at the time unfit for trates or 18. It shall be lawful for any one of the police magistrates at any Power to of the metropolitan police courts to hear and determine all offences police magisagainst the provisions of this Act, and also all disputes or causes of complaint that may arise out of the same; or if the offence, justices of the peace to dispute, or cause of complaint shall be committed or occur in any hear and place not comprised within the limits of a police court district, the determine same may be heard and determined by two justices of the peace for offences. the county; or if the offence, dispute, or cause of complaint shall be committed or occur within the city of London, the same shall be heard and determined by one justice of the peace for the said 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 In case of driver of any hackney carriage, the hirer may require the driver disputes the forthwith to drive to the nearest metropolitan police court or justice hirer may room, where complaint may be made to the magistrate then sitting, driver to drive require the who shall hear and determine the same, without requiring any to a police 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 to a police open, the hirer may require the driver to drive to the nearest police station. 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. court, &c. or 19. For every offence against the provisions of this Act for which Penalty for no special penalty is hereinbefore appointed, the offender shall be offences liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, or in default of against this payment be imprisoned. Act for which no penalty is appointed. Meaning of certain words 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 include every part of the metropolitan Act. police district and city of London. used in this 21. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the Act passed This Act to in the seventh year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, be construed chapter eighty-six, and the Act passed in the thirteenth year of with 6 & 7 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. [NOTE.-The fares in the schedule are amended by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 127, and are minimum fares. The fares may be raised by the Secretary of State by order under 32 & 33 Vict. c. 115, s. 9. An order as to fares has been made accordingly, and is dated 1896; see rules 24 to 28 inclusive.] Vict. c. 86, and 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7. B. R 18. a mile to be paid for every mile beyond the circumference of a circle Where more HACKNEY CARRIAGES (LONDON) ACT, 1853. (16 & 17 VICT. c. 127.) An Act to reduce the Duties payable in respect of Hackney Carriages used in the Metropolis, and to amend the Laws relating 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. [20th August, 1853.] WHEREAS it is expedient to reduce the duties now payable in respect of hackney carriages used in the metropolis: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 13. It shall be lawful for the driver of any hackney carriage 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, provided such carriage shall be discharged beyond such circumference, anything contained in the thirty-third chapter of an Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the reign of her present 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 sixpence for each person above the number of two shall be paid for the whole than two persons hiring in addition to the fare now directed to be paid for two persons under the said Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter thirty-three; and two one horse, 6d. in children under ten years old shall be considered as one adult person for the purposes of this clause. are conveyed in a hackney car riage drawn by addition to the fare to be paid for each person above two for the whole hiring. When carriage hired by time, every fifteen 6d. to be paid for minutes, or por- Proprietors 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 metropolitan stage carriage licensed to ply for hire within the limits of this Act who shall withdraw his carriage from hire for two consecutive days, or for any two days in one week, without just cause, of which the magistrate before whom the complaint is heard shall be the judge, shall be liable to a penalty of a sum not exceeding twenty shillings in respect of every carriage for each day he shall so withdraw the same, and the licence of such proprietor shall be suspended or recalled and taken away at the discretion of the said Commissioners of Police Provided always, that it shall be lawful for such proprietor, upon giving ten days' notice to the Commissioners of Police, to withdraw his carriage from hire. 17. The limits of this Act shall be deemed to be and to include "The limits every part of the metropolitan police district and the city of London; of this Act" and all provisions of any former Act in force referring to hackney defined. carriages licensed under the said Act of the first and second years of his late Majesty, or to hackney carriages kept, used, employed, or let to hire within the distance of five miles from the General Post Office in the city of London, or to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in relation to such hackney carriages within the said distance, shall from and after the passing of this Act be deemed to refer and apply to hackney carriages licensed under this Act, or to hackney carriages kept, used, employed, or let to hire within the limits of this Act, and to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in relation to hackney carriages within the said limits. METROPOLITAN STREETS ACT, 1867. An Act for regulating the Traffic in the Metropolis, and for [20th August, 1867.] WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provisions for regulating the traffic in the streets of the metropolis, and for the greater security of the inhabitants thereof: Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Preliminary. 66 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as 'the Metropolitan Short title. Streets Act, 1867." 2. In this Act "the metropolis" shall mean the city of London Definition of and all parishes and places for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works. "the metro polis." 3. The following expressions for the purposes of this Act shall, Definitions: unless the context requires a different construction, have the meanings hereinafter assigned to them; that is to say, "Magistrate" shall, within the city of London and the liberties «magisthereof, mean the Lord Mayor of the city of London, or any trate: alderman of the said city, sitting alone or with others at the Mansion House or Guildhall, and in the rest of the metro polis shall mean any metropolitan police magistrate: "Commissioner of Police," beyond the limits of the city of "CommisLondon and the liberties thereof, shall mean "the Commis- sioner of sioner of Police of the Metropolis," and within such limits Police: " "the Commissioner of the police force of the city of London and the liberties thereof: " "street: " "cattle." General limits of Act. Special limits of Act. Prohibition of scavengering except between certain hours. As to the deposit of goods in streets within general limits of Act. Regulations as to metro politan stage carriages. Prohibition of carriage of advertise. "Street" shall include any highway or other public place, whether a thoroughfare or not; and any of the royal parks, gardens, and possessions which are managed by the Commissioners of her Majesty's works and public buildings, in pursuance of the Act of the session of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-two, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be public places: The word "cattle" shall include bull, ox, cow, heifer, calf, sheep, goats, and swine, also horses, mules, and asses, when led in a string or loose. 4. The expression "the general limits of this Act” shall mean such parts of the metropolis as are enclosed in a circle of which the centre is Charing Cross and the radii are four miles in length, as measured in a straight line from Charing Cross : The expression "the special limits of this Act" shall mean such streets and portions of streets as may be declared to be special limits in manner hereinafter provided. PART I. General Regulations. 5. No person shall, after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, between the hours of ten in the morning and seven in the evening, in such streets as may be named by the Commissioner of Police, remove any ashes, dust, or refuse from any house in any street. Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 6. No goods or other articles shall be allowed to rest on any footway or other part of a street within the general limits of this Act, or be otherwise allowed to cause obstruction or inconvenience to the passage of the public, for a longer time than may be absolutely necessary for loading or unloading such goods or other articles. Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. For the purposes of this Act, the surface of any space over which the public have the right of way that intervenes in any street within the general limits of this Act between the footway and the carriageway shall, notwithstanding any claim of any person by prescription or otherwise to the deposit or exposure for sale of any goods or other articles on such surface, be deemed to be part of the footway. 8. Within the general limits of this Act the driver of a metropolitan stage carriage shall not stop such carriage for the purpose of taking up or setting down passengers at any part of a street except as near as may be to the left or near side of the roadway. Any driver of a metropolitan stage carriage acting in contravention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 9. No picture, print, board, placard, or notice, except in such form and manner as may be approved of by the Commissioner of Police, shall, by way of advertisement, be carried or distributed in ments, except any street within the general limits of this Act by any person riding in any vehicle, or on horseback, or being on foot. those ap |