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A49005
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An act of Common Council for the better regulation of hackney-coaches
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City of London (England). Court of Common Council.
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1683
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Wing L2857G; ESTC R34998
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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.
Beer or Ale by Retail nor to any One to keep more than Two Hackney-Coaches for the ends and purposes aforesaid And be it further Enacted and Ordained That all and every the Person and Persons that shall be Licenced as aforesaid shall observe and conform Him and Themselves to the Rules and Provisions herein after set down That is to say That every Coach-Man Licenced shall have a Mark of Distinction upon his Coach by Figure or otherwise as the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen shall think fit To the end They may be known in case they shall Misbehave themselves And also to distinguish them from Coach-Men Vnlicenced and that none shall put the same Mark or Distinction upon his Coach that is appointed for any other Coach nor shall for Hire Drive or Vse any Coach Except as aforesaid that is not so Marked or Distinguished And further That no Hackney-Coachman so to be Licenced as aforesaid shall take for his Hire above the Rates following That is to say Ten Shillings for one Day reckoning Twelve Hours to the Day and by the Hour not above Eighteen Pence for the First Hour and Twelve Pence for every Hour after And from the Inns of Court or thereabouts within this City to any part of St. James's or City of Westminster Except beyond Tuttle-Street above Twelve Pence and the same Prices from the same Places to the said Inns of Court or Places thereabouts within this City And from any of the Inns of Court or Places thereabouts within this City to the Royal Exchange or Places of the like Distance Twelve Pence and so from the said Places to the said Inns of Court as aforesaid and the like Rates from and to any Place at the like Distance with the Places before-mentioned upon pain that every Coach-Man refusing to go for the said Rates or exacting more for his Hire than the several Rates herein before Appointed or Offending in any of the particulars aforementioned shall Forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Ten Shillings of good English Money to be levied by Distress or Action of Debt as aforesaid And that the Persons so to be Licenced and Every of them shall conform Him and Themselves to such other Rules and Provisions for their good Government as shall from time to time be Set down by this Court And be it further Enacted That no Person shall be Licenced by Force of this Act to Drive any Hackney-Coach that shall be under the Age of One and Twenty years or that is not of Sober and Honest Conversation and decently Apparelled And Further That none of the said Persons to be Licenced by virtue of this Act shall take any Apprentice to employ him in the Driving any Hackney-Coaches within this City or the Liberties thereof And Further That their Hackney-Coaches shall stand to Take up Passengers in no other Places or in greater Numbers than are herein after Expressed That is to say From the Barrs without Aldgate to the Gate Twelve Coaches Near the Pump within Aldgate Three In Fenchurch-Street From the said Pump to Mark-Lane End Three From Mark-Lane End to Philpot-Lane End Three Near the Bulwark-Gate at the Tower Two In Tower-Street At Mincing-Lane End Two At Mark-Lane End Two At Seething-Lane End One Near the Monument on Fish-Street Hill Two In Gracechurch-Street From East-Cheap End to Lombard-Street End Two By St. Peters Church Two In Leadenhall-Street From Billiter-Lane End to St. Mary Ax Four From St. Mary Ax to Leaden-Hall Corner Four In Bishopsgate-Street within the Gate Eight From the Barrs without Bishopsgate to the Gate Eight In Broad-Street Six In Aldersgate-Street From Long-Lane End to Jewen-Street End Six From Jewen-Street End to Aldersgate Six In Redcross-Street From Golding-Lane to Jewen-Street End Four From Jewen-Street End to Cripplegate Church Two In Smithfield Twelve In Cheapside Near the Conduit Four From Foster-Lane End to Wood-Street End Three From Wood-Street End to King-Street End Four From King-Street End to Bucklers-Bury End Two At the West-End of St. Pauls Church Four standing Close to the Fence In Cornhill Near the Standard Three Near St. Michaels Church Three From Finch-Lane End to Sweethings-Alley Three From Castle-Alley to the Lower End of Cornhill Five Against the Stocks-Market Two In Great Lombard-Street Four On Dowgate-Hill near Skinners-Hall Two In Old Fish-Street Two In Coleman-Street Four In Aldermanbury Two From Guildhall to Cheapside Six In Great Wood-Street Two In Milk-Street Two In Newgate-Street Two From Newgate to St. Sepulchres Church Two On Each side of Fleet-Ditch void of the Great Street Two being Eight in all In the Old-Baily Six In Fleet-Street From Shooe-Lane End to Water-Lane End Four From Water-Lane End to White-Fryers Stump Six From White-Fryers Stump to the West-end of St. Dunstans Church Six From the East-end of St. Dunstans Church to Temple-Barr Six standing on the North-side of the Street In Chancery-Lane above Sergeants-Inne Six In Holborn Near Staple-Inne Gate Four Near Castle-Yard Gate Three From Castle-Yard Gate to Fetter-Lane End Five From Fetter-Lane End to Hatton-Garden End Five From Hatton-Garden End to Holborn-Bridge Three Without Moore-Gate Three And be it further Enacted That in all and every the Places aforesaid where more than One Coach is allowed to Stand the same Coaches and Every of them shall stand Five Yards distant at least one before another And further That if any of the said Hackney-Coaches shall Stand in order to be Hired in any other Place than are herein before-mentioned or in greater Numbers or at less Distances than are herein before specified That then the Person and Persons Offending in any of the said Cases shall Forfeit the Sum of Ten Shillings of like Lawful English Money to be Levied and Recovered by Distress or Action of Debt in manner before-mentioned And be it further Enacted That none of the said Coach-Men shall Vse or Drive Two Coaches at the same time with One Figure on the Penalty of Forfeiting for every such Offence the Sum of Five Pounds to be Levied and Recovered in manner aforesaid And be it also further Enacted That once in every Year a View shall be made by Order of this Court of the Fitness of the Persons that shall be Licenced by Virtue of this Act their Servants Horses and Coaches for the Service to which they are Licenced After which View as aforesaid Once in every Year the Licences of such of the said Persons as shall then be alive or their Widows whose Coach Servants and Horses shall upon such View be found fit for that Service and that shall have reasonably Complyed with the Rules and Directions of this Act shall be Renewed And be it further Enacted That none of the said Persons to be Licenced by Virtue of this Act shall at any time hereafter Stand or Ply for Hire against any part of the Royal Exchange nor stand in any Street or Common Passage before the Door or Shop of any Citizen or Inhabitant of this City to