FARES FOR DETENTION.

s. d.

For every fifteen minutes complete detention ... 1 0

An additional charge of one-half the above fares to be made between the hours of Ten o'clock at night and Six o'clock in the morning.

No extra charge to be made for luggage not exceeding 14lbs in weight for each person carried.

Every driver shall drive at a reasonable speed, not less than five miles in the hour, unless unavoidably delayed or required by the hirer to drive at a slower speed.

The driver of every Hackney Carriage to have a printed copy of the above Table of Rates and Fares affixed in a conspicuous place inside his carriage, in such place as may be directed by the Inspector of Hackney Carriages.

Borough Stage Carriages.

Borough Stage Carriages, per mile or part of a mile between termini ... 0 6

Made by the Council at a meeting held on the 9th day of August, 1869.

[L.S.] JOHN ANDERSON,
Mayor.

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

BYE-LAW No. 3.

HACKNEY CARRIAGES AND BOROUGH STAGE CARRIAGES.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of Christchurch, made under "The Municipal Corporation Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 181st section of "The Municipal Corporation Act, 1867," the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows:—

(1) The provisions contained in the clauses and parts of clauses hereinafter specified of the first sub-division of part ten of the thirteenth schedule of the said Act are hereby adopted in and for the said City, namely:—

1. The words "prescribed space" shall, for the purposes of this sub-division, mean for any Borough the space within the circumference of a circle whose radius is five miles in length from the principal post office of such Borough.

2. In this sub-division the term "hackney carriage" shall include every wheeled carriage, whatever may be its form or construction, used in standing or plying for hire for a passenger in any street within the prescribed space for any Borough not being a stage carriage, and not being such borough stage carriage as next hereinafter mentioned; and the term "borough stage carriage" shall include every wheeled carriage, whatever may be its form or construction, used in standing or plying for hire for passengers at separate fares, and which shall upon every journey go from or come to any place within the prescribed distance for such borough to or from any other place within such prescribed distance, and for all purposes the terms "hackney carriage" or "borough stage carriage," (as the case may require) shall be deemed sufficient to describe a carriage of either of the kinds hereinbefore mentioned; and the word "owner" shall include every person who, either alone or in partnership with any other person, shall keep, or be concerned otherwise than as a driver or attendant in the keeping, employing, or letting to hire, for any hackney carriage or borough stage carriage. And the word "conductor" shall include every director or other person, except the driver, who shall attend upon the passengers in any borough stage carriage. And the word "passenger" shall include every person carried by any hackney carriage or borough stage carriage, except one driver, and (where there shall be a conductor to such borough stage carriage) one conductor.

3. All property left by any passenger in any borough stage carriage shall be given up to the conductor of such carriage, or if there be no conductor, to the driver, upon pain of a penalty of not exceeding Twenty Pounds, to be paid by any person refusing or neglecting to give up any such property belonging to another person, and the conductor or driver of every such carriage to whom any property shall be so given up, and every conductor or driver of any such carriage, who respectively shall find in the carriage any property so left, shall, within two days next after the same shall have been left, carry the property in the state in which the same shall have come to his hands, to the office of the Council of the Borough, the Council of which granted the license of such driver or conductor, and deposit and leave such property with the Town Clerk of such Borough, and every conductor or driver offending against this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

4. The Town Clerk, with whom any such property shall be deposited, shall forthwith enter in a book to be kept by him at the said office for that purpose, the description of such property, and the name and address of the conductor or driver who shall have brought the same, and the day on which it shall have been brought, and the property so entered shall be returned to the person who shall prove to the satisfaction of the said Council that the same belonged to him; such person previously paying all expenses incurred, together with such reasonable sum to such conductor or driver as with reference to the value of the property in question the said Council shall award. Provided that if such property shall not be claimed by any person within one year from the date on which the same shall have been left, the Council shall sell the same and pay the proceeds into their general fund.