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Number of persons named in license must be carried if requested.

34. No owner, driver or conductor of any licensed carriage shall refuse or delay to admit and carry in and by his carriage the number of persons painted or marked thereon or specified in the license granted in respect thereof.

Driver to be in attendance.

35. The driver of every licensed carriage shall be constantly in attendance on the same when plying on any public stand or otherwise engaged for hire.

Carriage to have lights at night.

36. Every licensed carriage plying for hire or engaged after sunset and before sunrise shall be provided with proper carriage lights and the driver shall keep the same lighted while so plying or engaged for hire.

Horse’s blinkers not to be removed while feeding on stand.

37. Every driver who shall feed any horse whilst on the stand waiting for hire shall use a nose-bag to contain the forage and shall not remove such horse’s blinkers during the time of feeding.

No person to ride on box without permission of hirer.

38. No driver of any hackney carriage shall allow any person to ride on the box or in or upon any part of such carriage without the permission of the person hiring the same.

Articles left in carriages how disposed of.

39. The owner, driver or conductor of every licensed carriage wherein any property shall be left by any person hiring or using such carriage shall within eighteen hours next after the same shall have been so left restore such property in the state in which the same shall have been found to the owner thereof or if the owner cannot be traced shall deposit such property in the Town Clerk’s Office and if any owner, driver or conductor shall make any default herein he shall forfeit such sum as the Justice or Justices before whom complaint shall be made shall award for an offence against the provisions of this by-law together with such further sum as shall appear to such Justice or Justices to be a reasonable compensation for such property if the same shall not be restored and which compensation shall be recoverable in like manner as a penalty under this by-law and be payable to the owner of the property detained and when any such property shall be deposited as aforesaid the officer receiving the same shall give an acknowledgement to the depositor and make an entry and record thereof and the property so deposited shall be returned to the person who shall prove ownership to the satisfaction of the said Town Clerk such person previously paying all expenses incurred together with such sum to the person who shall have been actually driving the carriage or shall have been employed in or about it and having found the property shall deposit the same as herein directed as with reference to the value of the property the said Town Clerk shall award and if any property so found and deposited shall not be claimed by the owner thereof within three months after the date of deposit the property having been advertised such property may be sold by public auction and the proceeds thereof paid over to the Town Clerk in aid of the city fund.

Copy of by-law and duplicate license to be held by driver or conductor.

40. Every owner, driver or conductor licensed under the provisions hereof shall at the time of receiving his license obtain a printed copy of this by-law certified by the signature of the Town Clerk and having the name of the owner, driver or conductor to whom the same is so delivered and the number of the license written distinctly thereon and every such owner, driver or conductor respectively shall at all times have such copy or some other copy of this by-law ready to produce and shall upon request produce the same for perusal to any person using or hiring such carriage and every driver and conductor shall at all times when plying for hire have with him a duplicate of his license and shall upon demand produce the same to any such person or to the officer appointed to inspect hackney carriages or to any Justice of the Peace or to any constable or officer of police requiring to inspect the same the charge for such printed copy and the duplicate license shall be two shillings and sixpence.

Officer to inspect hackney carriages &c. &c.

41. Such person or persons as may from time to time in that behalf appointed by the said Council shall be the officer for the inspection of all hackney carriages plying for hire within the said city or the distance of eight miles from the corporate limits thereof and such officer shall from time to time examine all such carriages and shall at all times see that as far as possible this by-law is duly observed and no owner, driver or conductor of any such carriage or any other person shall obstruct any such officer in the execution of his said duties.

Penalties.

42. For every offence against any provision of this by-law the offender shall upon conviction be liable to and pay a penalty not exceeding ten pounds nor less than ten shillings to be recovered in a summary way provided that where by this by-law any penalty is imposed upon the owner and driver or driver and conductor of any licensed carriage for one and the same offence only one prosecution shall be had or maintained for the recovery of such penalty against such owner, driver or conductor at the option of the person prosecuting the same.