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Licensing Rules for Coaches and Carriages
FIRST. Number of Coaches to be licensed. SECOND. Mode of licensing by two Justices. THIRD. Owners of Coaches to give their Names on Places of Abode. FOURTH. Penalty on standing or plying without license. FIFTH. The fort of Coaches and Horses to be used. SIXTH. Tin plates and penalty on working without. SEVENTH. Regulating the time of landing and taking their stands. EIGHTH. Punishing driver landing in any other place than the stands and mode of feeding. NINTH. Driver of Coach exacting more than his fare. TENTH. Check strings to be provided by owners and used by coachmen. ELEVENTH. Coachmen not to absent themselves from their Coaches. TWELFTH. Opposing officers or giving abusive language. THIRTEENTH. Giving a wrong number if demanded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
George the
City of
C. B
Common Council
Common
Hackney
Vine Street
Corn-street
King’s Head Court
High Street
Such Street
Broad Street
Mersrs. Bush
and Co
Edward Plumley
Old Market
Castle-{treet
Meiers
Shapland
Sletcher
St. James’s Barton
William Chambers
Thomas Blayden
Henderson
Edgar
Avenue Street
Stokes Croft
Jane Roe
King’s Square
Jol. Beck
College Green
St. Augustine’s
Dwyer, Hatter
Clare-Street
St. Stephen’s Church
John Collard
Mansion House
Old King Street
Broad Mead