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57. If any owner of any cart permits the same to stand or ply for hire or to be used as a Flying for hire woodcart or as a watercart or to ply for hire or to be used as a nightcart within the prescribed space for any borough without having a license in force for such cart licensing or authorising such standing or plying for hire or use respectively within such prescribed space or if any person be found within any such prescribed space standing or plying for hire or using any woodcart or watercart or plying for hire or using any nightcart for which respectively no such license is in force or without having the name of the borough by the council of which the license for such cart shall have been granted and the number of such license and the words “licensed cart” displayed upon such cart openly and in manner herein provided every such person so offending shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

58. The owner of every cart kept within the borough and not used within the prescribed Registration of private carts. space thereof in standing or plying for hire or for any other of the purposes hereinbefore in this subdivision mentioned shall in each year apply to the town clerk of the borough that such cart be registered and shall truly state at the same time to the said town clerk the name and place of abode of such owner and if such cart has been previously registered in the borough the number of such registration and such town clerk shall forthwith register the said cart and enter the said particulars in a register book to be kept for the purpose numbering all such entries with a number but so that in no case shall any two such entries bear the same numbers save in the case of such previous registration in which case the second and all subsequent entries of the cart shall bear the number of the said previous registration and the town clerk shall issue to such owner a certificate signed by such clerk of such registration bearing the number thereof and the name and place of abode of such owner and every such registration shall be of effect until such day in each year as the council shall by general order for that purpose have appointed and no longer and every such owner shall cause such number to be painted or marked on such cart and kept so painted or marked in the like position and manner as is herein required in the case of licensed carts.

59. Every owner of any such cart as in the last preceding section aforesaid who in any Penalty for not registering. year keeps any such cart within any borough without having registered the same in such year in the manner therein aforesaid or without having caused such number to be so painted or marked as aforesaid and keeping the same so painted or marked on such cart shall for such default forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings and a further sum not exceeding five shillings for every day during which such default continues after any conviction for the same under this section.

60. The driver of every licensed cart shall hold the license for such cart and shall when Driver to hold and produce license. required by any constable or by any officer of the council of any borough within the prescribed space for which cart shall be or by any person wishing to hire or having hired such cart if licensed to stand and ply for hire produce for the inspection of the person so requiring such license and also a copy of the table of rates and charges appointed as herein provided and every such driver who shall on being so required refuse or neglect so to produce such license or copy shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

61. Every owner of a cart licensed under this subdivision who shall employ any other person Owner to cause driver’s name to be written on license. to drive the same shall cause to be truly written upon the license for such cart the name of the person so employed and shall keep such name so written while such person remains so employed and thereafter forthwith shall erase or deface such writing and if any such owner shall wilfully make default in causing such writing to be made or to be erased or defaced respectively when and as herein required or if any person so employed as aforesaid shall without reasonable excuse refuse or neglect when required by such owner to produce or return to such owner such license every person so offending respectively shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings and any justice may order such production or return.

62. Every owner or driver of any cart who uses any abusive or insulting language to any Abusive language by driver. person who wishes to hire or has hired such cart or if the same be then employed as a woodcart or watercart who shall deal with such owner or driver for the purchase of or have immediately before purchased of him any wood or water of the loading of such cart respectively shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

63. Every owner or driver of any cart licensed to stand or ply for hire which shall stand Omission to carry when required. upon any standing appointed for the purpose or shall be in any street who when required by any person who after sunrise and before sunset any day wishes to hire or has hired such cart refuses or neglects without reasonable excuse to carry for a single load such weight as shall have been appointed as herein provided or any less weight to any place within the prescribed space for the borough and every such owner or driver who demands and takes for the hire of such cart a greater sum than that appointed as herein provided or who without reasonable excuse refuses or neglects to load or unload such dray when hired so far as he can without assistance or who stands or plies for hire with such cart elsewhere than at some standing or place appointed as aforesaid shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

64. If the driver of any cart shall leave the same unattended in any street whether Leaving cart unattended, etc. public or private or shall go for a distance of more than two yards from the side of such cart being in any such street without passing through the near wheel or wheels thereof a suitable chain or chains so as effectually to prevent the rotation of such wheel or wheels whether in any such case such