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pay to such owner or driver, whether in pursuance of any agreement or not, any sum exceeding the proper fare, the person paying the same shall be entitled, on complaint made against such owner or driver before any Justice, to recover back the sum paid beyond the proper fare; and such owner or driver shall further, for such exaction, be liable to a penalty for an offence against the provisions hereof.

36. Articles left in carriages, how disposed of.

The owner or driver of every licensed vehicle, wherein any property whatever shall be left by any person hiring or using such vehicle, 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 or driver shall make any default herein, he shall be liable to a penalty for an offence against the provisions of this Bye-law. And when any such property shall be deposited as aforesaid, the officer receiving the same shall give an acknowledgment to the depositor, and make an entry and record thereof, and the property so recovered shall be returned to the person who shall prove ownership to the satisfaction of the Town Clerk; such person previously paying all expenses incurred, together with such sum to the person who shall have been actually driving the vehicle, or shall have been employed in or about it, and having found the property shall deposit the same as herein directed; and with reference to the value of the property the said Council shall award. And if any property so found and deposited shall not be claimed by the owner thereof within one year after the date of deposit, the property being advertised in such manner as the said Council may direct, such property shall be sold by public auction, and the proceeds thereof paid over to the Town Clerk in aid of the City Fund, after deducting such sum as the said Council may award to the person who shall have been actually driving the vehicle, or shall have been employed in or about it, and having found the property, shall deposit the same as herein directed.

37. Copy of Bye-law to be given to Owner and Driver.

Every owner licensed under the provisions hereof shall, at the time of obtaining his license, have delivered to him, without any charge, a printed copy of this Bye-law, and having the name of the owner or driver to whom the same is so delivered, and the number of the license written distinctly thereupon; and every such owner and driver respectively shall at all times have such copy or some other copy of this Bye-law ready to produce, and shall upon request produce the same for perusal to any person using or hiring the vehicle owned or driven by him.

38. Inspector of Hackney Carriages.

Such person or persons as may from time to time be in that behalf appointed by the said Council, shall be the Inspector or Inspectors, during the pleasure of the said Council, of all hackney carriages and other vehicles plying for hire within the said city; and such Inspector or Inspectors shall from time to time examine all such vehicles, and shall at all times see that, as far as possible, this Bye-law is duly observed.

39. Inspector must not be obstructed.

No owner or driver of any vehicle, or any other person, shall obstruct any such Inspector in the execution of his said duties.

40. Penalties.

For every offence against any provision of this Bye-law, the offender shall, upon conviction, be liable to and shall pay any penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

41. Interpretation Clause.

The words “Town Clerk,” where used in this Bye-law, shall be understood to mean the Town Clerk of the City of Dunedin. The word “owner” shall signify every person possessed of a beneficial interest in any hackney carriage or other vehicle; and whenever in this Bye-law, with reference to any person, animal, matter, or thing, any word or words is or are used importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, yet such word or words shall be understood to include several persons or animals, as well as one person or animal, females as well as males, bodies corporate or politic as well as individuals, and several matters and things as well as one matter or thing, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant thereto.

42. Vehicles not plying publicly not affected hereby.

Nothing in this Bye-law contained shall apply, or be held to apply to vehicles which shall be let to hire only when previously ordered or bespoken at the residences of their owners, and which shall never be permitted to ply for hire in any street or place off the premises of their respective owners or to the owners or drivers of such vehicles.

THE SCHEDULE

Referred to in Clause 3.—Table of Rates and Fares of Hackney Carriages or Cabs plying for hire within the City of Dunedin.

Fares by Time

For a carriage having four wheels and two or more horses...
For cabs and other vehicles having two or more wheels & one horse...

• For the first hour ... £0 5s 0d | £0 4s 0d
• For the second hour ... £0 5s 0d | £0 4s 0d
• For the third hour ... £0 4s 0d | £0 3s 0d
• For every subsequent hour (half-hours and quarters at the same scale) ... £0 4s 0d | £0 3s 0d

Special Fares by Distance

For each passenger...

• For half a mile or any less distance ... £0 1s 6d
• For a mile ... £0 2s 0d
• For every additional half mile or a fractional part of half a mile ... £0 1s 0d

Any person calling or sending for any carriage or cab, and not further employing same, exclusive of detention, charge ... £0 1s 6d

Half fare allowed back if distance exceeds two miles, provided the fare is not by time, and half fare back if engaged to return.

Detention

For every fifteen minutes after the first five minutes ... £0 1s 0d
No extra charge for luggage if under 50lbs. weight.

Every driver of a licensed vehicle shall drive the same at a reasonable speed, about six miles an hour, unless unavoidably delayed, or required by the hirer to drive at any slower pace.

The driver of every licensed vehicle to produce a copy of the above Table of Rates and Fares on demand, and to have a copy of the same affixed conspicuously inside his carriage, on the front panel thereof, or in such other part thereof as the Council of the City of Dunedin may direct.

Bye-Law No. II.

A Bye-Law for the Licensing and Regulating Wagons and other Vehicles, and the Owners, Drivers, and Conductors thereof; and for regulating the Sale and exposure for Sale of Hay, Straw, Coals, Firewood, and Water within the City of Dunedin.

Whereas it is expedient to make provisions by Bye-law for licensing and regulating wagons, drays, carts, and other vehicles for the carrying of goods and merchandise, plying, kept, or let for hire, within the City of Dunedin, or used in hawking water within the said city, and for licensing and registering the names of, and regulating the conduct of the owners, drivers, and conductors thereof, and for regulating the sale and exposure for sale of hay, straw, coals, firewood, and water within the city: Be it therefore ordered and