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be properly chargeable under the Schedule the number which such carriage is licensed
F aforesaid; nor shall any agreement made to carry, and to whose admission no reasonable objection is made.

32. No owner or driver of any hackney carriage having agreed to take any fare at any time to or from any place, whether within or beyond the limits hereinafter prescribed, shall refuse, neglect, or delay to fulfil such agreement.

33. No owner, driver, or conductor in charge of, or in attendance upon any carriage, shall drive the same furiously, carelessly, or wantonly, or smoke after objection made by any passenger, or be drunk, or use any obscene or blasphemous language, or any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or gestures, or otherwise so misbehave himself as to annoy any person riding therein.

34. Except in the case of actual necessity or other reasonable cause for deviation, the driver or conductor of any carriage shall keep the same on the near or left side of the road, and no driver or conductor shall interrupt or interfere with any person or carriage passing or attempting to pass his carriage.

35. Every driver of a hackney carriage, while engaged in taking up or setting down any passenger, shall, during such taking up, or setting down, place his carriage as near as conveniently may be to that side of the street at which the taking up and setting down is required.

36. The owner of any licensed carriage, in actual use after sunset and before sunrise, shall provide the same with two proper lights, and the driver shall keep such lights alight during all such intermediate time as such carriage shall be in use.

37. The driver of any hired hackney carriage shall not allow any person to ride on the box, or in or upon any part of such carriage, without the express previous permission of the person hiring the same.

38. No driver or conductor of a borough stage carriage shall allow any person beside himself to ride upon the steps, or in the place provided for him, nor shall any such driver or conductor allow any person to smoke inside any such carriage, or knowingly carry in such carriage any person who violently, noisily, or indecently conducts himself, or otherwise so misbehaves as to annoy any other passenger, save for such time only as to remove such person from the carriage, or to procure his delivery into proper custody.

39. No driver or conductor of any borough stage carriage, for the time being employed or plying as such, shall carry any greater number of passengers at one and at the same time than such carriage is licensed to carry, or shall refuse or neglect to carry any passenger, not forming with other passengers already being in such carriage an excess over the number which such carriage is licensed to carry, and to whose admission no reasonable objection is made.

40. Every owner, driver, or conductor, offending against any provision of this bye-law, shall, on conviction, be liable to pay a penalty not exceeding £5, nor less than 10s., to be recovered in a summary way before any two Justices of the Peace, in the manner provided by the said Act.

41. This bye-law shall apply to all hackney carriages and borough stage carriages within the meaning of the said Act, which shall be used in standing or plying for hire within the corporate limits of the City of Christchurch, and within any distance, as the crow flies, of not more than five miles from the principal post-office for the time being of the said City.

42. In this bye-law the word “carriage” shall include both a “hackney carriage” and a “borough stage carriage,” and the words “hackney carriage,” “borough stage carriage,” “owner,” “driver,” “conductor,” and “passenger,” shall respectively have the meanings affixed to them by Clause 2 of Subdivision (1) of Part X. of the 13th Schedule of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.” The word “Town Clerk” shall mean the Town Clerk of the City of Christchurch.

43. The bye-laws, or parts of bye-laws, hereinafter specified, being all the bye-laws, or parts of bye-laws, or regulations heretofore in force, in an for the said City of Christchurch, which are inconsistent with, or repugnant to the said provisions, or in any respect deal, or purport to deal, with the subject matter of the said provisions, are hereby repealed; namely, a bye-law made by the Council on the 3rd day of January, 1865, and entitled Bye-law No. 2 for licensing hackney carriage, and the owners, drivers, and conductors thereof.

Passed by the said Council this 9th day of August, 1869.

[L.s.]
JOHN ANDERSON,
Mayor.

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

SCHEDULE A.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

Bye-Law No. 2, Clause 2.

A REQUISITION FOR A HACKNEY CARRIAGE OR BOROUGH STAGE CARRIAGE LICENCES.

To THE MAYOR AND COUNCILLORS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH —

I residing in do hereby request that a Licence may be granted to me to keep use employ and let a [carriage type] to ply for hire within the said city and