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7. No license shall include more than one
   cart, provided that the same cart may be
   licensed both as a carrier’s and hawker’s
   cart.

8. The owner of every licensed cart shall,
   before using the same, or allowing the same
   to be used pursuant to such license, paint
   upon a conspicuous part of the off side
   thereof, and upon no other cart, in con-
   secutive order in words and figures of not
   less than two inches in height, white upon a
   ground of black, the initials of his christian
   name and his surname in full, the words
   "Licensed Carrier" or "Licensed Hawker,"
   or "Licensed Carrier and Hawker," as the
   case may be, and the number or numbers of
   the license or licenses, which shall then be
   in force for the same, and shall keep such
   painting undefaced, legible, and conspicuous
   during all such time as such license or
   licenses shall continue in force, and no
   longer.

9. The rates of fare for the transfer or
   conveyance of goods by any licensed cart
   shall be according to the scale specified in
   Schedule C hereunto annexed, it being at
   the option of the hirer whether to hire by
   time or by distance, and a copy of such
   schedule shall be supplied by the Town
   Clerk, together with his license, to every
   owner on whose application such license
   shall be granted.

10. The Council shall appoint, and may
    from time to time alter, the number and
    places of the public stands for licensed
    carriers, and the number of carriers’ carts to
    be allowed to wait at each stand, and the
    appropriation of any part or parts thereof
    respectively for foot passengers, and, so soon
    as conveniently may be thereafter, shall give
    notice of every such appointment, alteration,
    or appropriation, by advertisement in some
    newspaper published within the City of
    Christchurch.

11. The owner or driver of any carrier’s
    cart shall not permit the same, whether with
    or without a horse or horses, to stand else-
    where than on a public stand longer than
    may be necessary for the loading or un-
    loading the same.

12. The driver of any carrier’s cart shall
    take his station on any public stand, on
    which he shall wait for hire in the order of
    his arrival on such stand; and in the event
    of the station before him being vacated,
    shall immediately thereupon take such
    station.

13. The driver of any carrier’s cart shall
    remain constantly in attendance upon the
    same, while hired, or plying for, or returning
    from hire, or waiting on any public stand.

14. No driver shall feed any horse while
    on any stand otherwise than by means of a
    nose-bag, or shall remove such horse’s
    blinkers while being fed; nor shall any
    driver permit any vicious horse attached to
    any cart to be or remain unmuzzled.

15. No owner or driver of any carrier’s
    cart plying for hire, or waiting on any public
    stand between the hours of sunrise and sun-
    set, shall refuse or neglect, unless then
    actually hired by some other person, to carry
    a reasonable load, or to let out such cart for
    hire for any distance within the limits here-
    inafter prescribed.

16. The owner or driver of any carrier’s
    cart shall exact or demand for the hire
    thereof to any place within the limits here-
    inafter prescribed, any greater sum than may
    be properly chargeable under Schedule C
    aforesaid.

17. No owner or driver of any carrier’s
    cart, having agreed to carry any load 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.

18. The driver of any carrier’s cart shall,
    on being required so to do, produce to the
    person hiring or paying for the same the
    copy of the schedule of fares with which the
    owner of such cart shall have been furnished,
    under section 9 of this bye-law.

19. The driver of any hired cart shall load
    and unload the same; and if he cannot do
    so without assistance, then with such as-
    sistance as may be reasonably necessary.

20. The driver of any cart shall not,
    while hired, returning from hire, plying for
    hire, or waiting on any public stand, cause
    any obstruction or create any disturbance;
    nor shall any owner or driver of any cart
    use towards any person hiring or having
    hired such cart, or dealing for goods being
    the loading of such cart, with the owner or
    driver thereof, any obscene, blasphemous,
    threatening, abusive, or insulting words or
    gestures.

21. The penalty for any offence against
    any provisions of this bye-law shall be a
    sum of not more than Five Pounds, nor less
    than Ten Shillings, to be recovered in a
    summary way before any two Justices of
    the Peace, in the manner provided by the
    said Act.

22. If any such offence be committed by
    any owner, the penalty shall, and if the same
    be committed by any driver the penalty
    may, be recovered against such owner.
    Provided that any proceeding hereunder
    against any owner shall not prejudice or
    preclude any proceeding against any driver
    in respect of the same offence.

23. Upon its being made to appear to the
    satisfaction of the Council that any owner
    or driver has been convicted of any offence
    under this bye-law, or of any criminal
    offence, the Council may suspend for any
    stated time, or revoke, as they may deem
    fit, any license which such owner may hold
    under this bye-law.

24. This bye-law shall apply to all carriers’
    and hawkers’ carts hereinafter specified with-
    in the meaning of the said Act, which shall
    be used in standing or plying for hire, or
    for the conveyance of goods for sale, within
    the corporate limits of the City of Christ-
    church, and within any distance as the crow