Province to be incorporated under the provisions of the same : And whereas by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Colony of New Zealand, No. 52, 1865, intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporation Empowering Act, 1865," it is among other things enacted that the Corporation of the City of Dunedin be empowered to make regulations for the licensing of all hackney carriages, cabriolets, public conveyances, coaches, omnibusses, spring carts, or other vehicles of a like nature, waggons, drays, carts, and other vehicles for the carrying goods and merchandise, plying at or kept for hire within the city, and also waggons, drays, or carts, or vehicles used in hawking firewood and water within the city respectively, and for registering the names of the owners, drivers, and conductors of all such passenger and other vehicles, and for the approval of owners and drivers before license granted: And whereas the Council of the City of Dunedin has deemed it to be expedient to provide regulations to be observed by the owners and drivers of hackney carriages, and other vehicles as aforesaid, plying for hire within the limits of the said city : Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the said city, by virtue of the authority in them vested in that behalf, that from and after the day on which this Bye-law shall come into operation, the following Regulations shall be in force within the City of Dunedin:—

1. All Public Carriages must be Licensed.

This Bye-law shall apply to hackney carriages, omnibusses, cabriolets, public conveyances, coaches, or other vehicles of the like nature carrying passengers, plying, kept, or let for hire within the city; and no such hackney carriage, omnibus, cabriolet, public conveyance, coach, or other vehicle of any description whatsoever, shall ply for hire within the City of Dunedin unless the same shall be duly licensed by the Town Clerk for the time being of the said city, and shall pay for such license to the Town Clerk the sum of one pound, and the like sum annually for its renewal in every succeeding twelve calendar months. The name and residence in full of the owner to be at the same time duly registered by the Town Clerk. Any such license may be transferred by endorsement duly signed by the Town Clerk, on payment of a fee of five shillings, and subject always to the conditions in Clause 2 of this Bye-law.

2. Name of Owner to be submitted.

Before a license for any such vehicle as aforesaid shall be granted, the owner or other person having charge of the same, shall submit his name to the office of the Town Clerk, and shall be approved of by the Mayor or one of the Councillors of the said city, and no person deemed by the said Mayor or Councillor to be unfit to hold a license shall be entrusted therewith—subject, however, to the right of appeal to the Council of the said city.

3. Driver must be Licensed.

No person shall act as the driver of any hackney carriage within the City of Dunedin, unless he shall have a license granted and in force under the provisions of this Bye-law, and for every such license a fee of five shillings shall be paid.

4. Requisition for Driver’s License.

Before a license be granted to any person as hackney carriage driver, a requisition for the same shall be made at the office of the Town Clerk, and shall be signed by the applicant, who shall further produce satisfactory certificates of good conduct, and if required, of ability to drive, and on being approved by the Mayor, the license shall be granted.

5. Owner or Driver must not part with License.

No owner or driver of a licensed carriage shall lend or part with his license, nor shall the owner of any such carriage employ or permit any unlicensed person to act as the driver thereof.

6. Duration of License.

All licenses under this bye-law, at whatever period of the year the same may be granted, shall remain in force only until the 30th day of September thereafter.

7. Number of Carriage on Lamp-glass.

The owner or driver of any hackney carriage of whatsoever description the same may be, shall have painted so as to be distinct and legible, on the front glass of each of the lamps belonging to such carriage, the number of such carriage in figures one inch in length, and shall keep the same so painted during the whole time such carriage shall ply for hire or be used for the conveyance of passengers, and such lamps shall be used only for and with the carriage the number of which shall be so painted upon them.

8. Table of Rates and Fares.

It shall be lawful for the said Council in the month of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and in the respective months of June and December in every succeeding year, to regulate and fix, by a table to be by them for such purpose made, the rates and fares to be charged by the owners and drivers of hackney carriages, and the said rates and fares to vary and alter from time to time, and other rates and fares to fix and establish in lieu thereof; and such rates and fares, when so regulated and fixed or altered, shall be published in one or more of the newspapers published in the said city, and shall be deemed to be the rates and fares which, from and after such publication, may be lawfully demanded, received, or taken by any hackney carriage owner or driver as aforesaid; and until otherwise provided, the rates and fares specified in the Schedule hereto shall be the rates and fares which may be lawfully demanded, received, or taken by any such hackney carriage owner or driver.

9. Where to be Affixed.

The table of fares for the time being authorised to be charged shall be affixed at the upper part of the front panel, or in such other place as the said Council may direct, inside of such carriage, and shall be kept so affixed, conspicuous, legible and undefaced, during all the time the carriage shall ply or be used for hire.

10. Children — how counted.

No child under seven years of age shall be counted a passenger, unless there shall be more than one, in which case two of such children shall be considered as one passenger, and so on in respect of every two such children. Children at the breast shall not be counted as passengers in any case.

11. Carriages must drive at a walk by Places of Worship, during service.

The driver of every licensed carriage, driving the same by any place of public worship, during the hours of Divine Service therein, on any Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or Fast Day, shall drive such carriage, while passing such place of public worship, at a walking pace.

12. Computation of Distances.

The distance for which any charge shall be made shall be computed from the stand or place where the carriage was hired, but in case the carriage be taken from any place of public amusement or public building, the distance shall be computed from such last-mentioned place or building, and not from the stand where the carriage may usually ply.

13. Distinction of Vehicle as regards Fares.

Licensed vehicles having four wheels, and being drawn by two or more horses, shall be deemed a carriage; and having two wheels or more than two wheels, if drawn by one horse, a cab.

14. Owner or Driver must keep engagement.

No owner or driver of any licensed vehicle, having agreed to take any fare at any time, or from any place, shall delay, neglect, or refuse to fulfil such agreement.

15. Stands for Carriages, and Fares.

Such places as the said Council shall from time to time appoint shall be the public stands for hackney carriages plying for hire; and the appointment and alteration of the situations of the stands shall be notified by advertisement in one or more of the newspapers published within the said city. And until otherwise provided, the places following shall be public stands.