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A49005 An act of Common Council for the better regulation of hackney-coaches City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1683 (1683) Wing L2857G; ESTC R34998 6,350 18

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AN ACT OF Common Council For the better Regulation of HACKNEY-COACHES LONDON Printed by Samuel Roycroft Printer to this Honourable City 1683. Pritchard Mayor Commune Concilium tent ' in Camera Guild-hall Civitatis LOND ' Die Martis Decimo Tertio die Martii Anno Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angl ' c. Tricesimo Quinto Annoque Dom. 1682. IT is Ordered by this Court That the Act for Regulating the Hackney-Coachmen this Day passed shall be forthwith Printed and Published Wagstaffe Commune Concil ' tent ' in Camera Guildhall Civitatis LOND ' Die Martis Decimo tertio die Martii Anno Regni Domini nostri CAROLI Secundi Dei gratia Angl ' Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. Tricesimo quinto Annoque Dom ' 1682. Coram Willielmo Pritchard Mil ' Major ' Civ ' Lond ' Willielmo Turner Mil ' Jacobo Edwards Mil ' Johanne Moore Mil ' Jacobo Smith Mil ' Roberto Geffery Mil ' Johanne Peake Mil ' Thoma Beckford Mil ' Johanne Chapman Mil ' Simone Lewis Mil ' Jonathano Raymond ' Mil ' Richardo How Mil ' Petro Daniel Armig ' Ald'ris Dudleo North Mil ' Alder ' ac un ' Vicecom ' dicte Civitatis Necnon Majore parte Communiar ' dicte Civitatis in Communi Concilio tunc ibidem assemblat ' WHEREAS by the Ancient Charters Customs Franchises and Liberties of this City the Lord MAYOR and Aldermen of the same City with the Assent of the Commonalty thereof are to make By-Laws and Orders for the preventing and hindering of all Things which may from time to time happen arise or grow within the same City tending to the Hurt or Prejudice of the Citizens and Inhabitants thereof or of the People resorting thereunto or of the Trade of the same City And whereas EDWARD sometime King of England of Famous Memory the Third of that Name by His Charter made and granted to this City in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign confirmed also by Parliament amongst other things granted That if any the Customs in this City before that Time obtained and used were in any part hard or defective or any thing within the same City arising where Remedy before that time was not Ordained should need Amendment The Mayor and Aldermen of this City and their Successors with the Assent of the Commonalty of the same City might put and ordain thereunto fit Remedies as often as it should seem Expedient unto them So that such Ordinances should be profitable to the King for the profit of the Citizens and other People repairing to this City and agreeable to Reason And whereas the Number of Hackney-Coaches Driving Standing and Waiting within this City are now of late time so greatly Increased and become so many that the Streets and Common Passages thereof are by the Driving and Standing of such Hackney-Coaches so filled and pestered That the Citizens and Inhabitants of this City and the People repairing thereunto are greatly hindered in their Affairs and the Passages of Carts and other Carriages necessary for the conveying of Goods greatly obstructed and the Trade of this City thereby much prejudiced and the Charges of the Repairs of the Streets of this City much increased And great Damages Mischiefs and Inconveniences are daily occasioned thereby and likely to be Increased to the Citizens and Inhabitants of this City and other Persons resorting thereunto For prevention therefore of all Inconveniences and Mischiefs which for the future may arise and grow to this City by such great Numbers of Hackney-Coaches and to the end That Hackney-Coaches to be used and employed within this City and the Liberties thereof may be reduced to a Convenient Number and that the Persons Keeping and Driving such Hackney-Coaches for Hire within this City and the Liberties thereof may be under some good Regulation and Government agreable to what hath been already provided concerning Carrs Carts and Carr-Men Be it Enacted and Ordained by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren and the Commons in Common Council Assembled by Force of the Customs Franchises and Liberties aforesaid and Charter before-mentioned confirmed by Parliament as aforesaid and by Authority thereof That from and after the First Day of MAY next coming the Number of Hackney-Coaches to be used and employed within this City and the Liberties thereof shall not exceed Four Hundred And to the end the Number of them may be ascertained and not exceed Four Hundred as aforesaid Be it further Enacted and Ordained That no Person or Persons after the said First Day of MAY next coming other than such Persons as shall be Licenced according to this Act Except Stage-Coaches to and from their Inns and Coaches which shall take up a Fare out of the City to be carried to any Place within or beyond this City or the Liberties thereof whilst they shall be without Covin or Delay driving to such Place or Places within or beyond this City or the Liberties thereof only shall by Himself or his Servants Drive for Hire any Hackney-Coach or Stand therewith to be Hired within this City of London or the Liberties thereof And that if any Person or Persons not so Licenced except as is before Excepted shall presume by Himself or his Servants to Drive for Hire any Coach within this City or the Liberties thereof as aforesaid or to Stand with any Unlicenced Coach in order to be Hired within the said City and Liberties thereof That then the Person or Persons so Offending shall Forfeit for every Time wherein he or they shall Offend in the Premisses the Sum of Forty Shillings to be Levied by Distress of the Coach and Horses so to be Driven or Standing contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act or of One of them or to be recovered by Action of Debt to be brought and prosecuted in the Name of the Chamberlain of this City now and for the Time being in any His MAJESTIES Courts of Record within this City where Actions of Debt may be brought And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That in granting such Licences as aforesaid regard in the First place be had to such Person and Persons as were last Licenced by virtue of a Late Act of Parliament made in the Fourteenth Year of His now MAJESTIES Reign for Regulating and Licencing of Hackney-Coaches that shall desire Licences in pursuance of this Act and to the Widow and Widows of every of them that now have Coaches and Horses or whose Livelyhood is depending thereon And be it further Enacted and Ordained That upon the Death Forfeiture or Surrender of any of the Person and Persons first to be Licenced as aforesaid and their respective Widows nor at any time thereafter New Licences for the keeping Hackney-Coaches within this City and the Liberties thereof as aforesaid shall not be granted to any Person or Persons that useth any other Trade or Occupation or that shall vend
his Annoyance or Hindrance but in the Middle of the Streets and Passages only Except between St. Dunstans Church and Temple-Barr as aforesaid and at Five Yards Distance as aforesaid and so as the Coaches and Carts may pass Free on each Side of the said Street Nor shall Feed his or their Horses with Hay in any Street or Common Passage Except such Quantities only as the Coach-Men shall hold and deliver with his and their Hands to his and their Horses Nor shall refuse to give Way to any Gentlemans-Coach or other Coach in such Street or Passage where Need shall require on Pain that Every Person Offending in any of the said Cases shall Forfeit and Pay the Sum of Ten Shillings of good English Money for Every such Offence to be Levied and Recovered in manner aforesaid And be it further Enacted That to the end the said Coach-Men may be the more Effectually kept to their Standings and other the Rules and Orders of this Act That Andrew Tomlyn and such other Person and Persons as this Court shall for and during so long Time as this Court shall from Time to Time Limit shall take Care that this Act and every Thing therein contained to the utmost of His and Their Power be duly put in Execution And in case He or They shall find any of the Coach-Men to be Licenced in manner aforesaid or any others Offending in any of the Particulars herein before-mentioned That then He or They do Distrain the Coaches and Horses of the Person and Persons so Offending or One of them for the Penalties and Forfeitures Inflicted on Him or Them by this Act for such Offence and Offences which such Coach-Man or Coach-Men shall so Commit in Contempt of this Act or bring the Name of the Offender or Offenders or the Number or Mark of His or Their Coaches and the Place of his Abode to the Chamberlain of this City now and for the Time being to the end such Offender and Offenders may be proceeded against according to Law And all Constables and other His MAJESTIES Officers within this City and the Liberties thereof are hereby Impowered and Required to be Aiding and Assisting to the said Andrew Tomlyn and such other Person and Persons as this Court shall Direct in all Things tending to the Execution of this Act in preventing the Mischiefs and Inconveniences intended to be Remedied thereby And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid for prevention of all Persons other than such as are to be Licenced by Virtue hereof to Drive and Stand with Hackney-Coaches for Hire in the Streets of this City That the said Four Hundred Persons shall be Licenced and have a Certificate Yearly to be Renewed from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen under the Seal of the Office of Majoralty and Signed by the Town-Clerk of this City in manner following viz. ORdered by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of LONDON That A. B. of c. for and during the space of One Year to be accounted from the First Day of May Be and is hereby Licenced to keep a Hackney-Coach within this City and the Liberties thereof Pursuant to an Act of Common Council Made Enacted and Passed c. He the said A. B. Conforming himself to the Rules in the said Act of Common Council set down and prescribed And that the Number _____ be the Mark and Figure to be used by the said A. B. upon such his Hackney-Coach Witness c. And Lastly It is hereby further Declared Ordained and Enacted That all and every the Sum and Sums of Money to be Forfeited by this Act and to be Levied and Recovered for the not due Observance of the same shall be disposed of in Manner following That is to say One Moiety thereof the Costs of the Suits for Recovery of the same being first deducted and allowed shall after the Recovery and Receipt thereof be paid and delivered to the Treasurer of Christs-Hospital to be employed for and towards the Relief of the Poor Children to be Brought up and Maintained in the said Hospital And the other Moiety to be paid to the Chamberlain of this City for the Time being to be disposed of to such Person and Persons as shall be Imployed to see the due Execution of this Act to the end the Mischiefs thereby intended to be remedied may be fully prevented and after to such other Vses as this Court shall think fit and appoint Wagstaffe Printed by Samuel Roycroft Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON 1683.