borne in Kent, and for other Purposes relating to the Execution of the Commission of Sewers for the said Limits. 50 Geo. 3. c. 144.-An Act for amending, enlarging, and extending the Powers of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament relating to the Execution of the Commission of Sewers for the Limits from East Mouldsey in Surrey to Ravensborne in Kent. 53 Geo. 3. c. 79.-An Act for amending, enlarging, and extending the Powers of Two several Acts passed in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Years of His present Majesty relating to the Execution of the Commission of Sewers for the Limits extending from East Mouldsey in Surrey to Ravensborne in Kent. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 217.- An Act to facilitate the effectual Drainage of certain Districts within the Commission of Sewers for the Limits extending from East Mouldsey in Surrey to Ravensborne in Kent. САР. СХІІІ. An Act for the further Amendment of the Acts relating to 4 Fifth Year of Her said Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for 5&6 Vict. c. 24. ' improving the Dublin Police, further Provisions were made relating to the same: And whereas it is expedient to amend certain of the Provisions of the said Acts in manner following: And whereas an Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending and reducing 37 G. 3. (I.) into One Act of Parliament the Laws relating to Hackney and other Carriages plying in the City of Dublin, its Suburbs and Liberties, and within Seven Miles thereof, which Act has been amended by several subsequent Acts: And whereas by the said 'recited Acts of the Thirty-seventh and Forty-eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third it is, amongst other things, provided, that the Superintendent Magistrate and 'Divisional Justices appointed under the said Acts respectively shall retain and employ certain Clerks and other Officers, under the Regulations therein mentioned, and it is expedient to amend 'the cers in Dublin Police Offices 'the said Provisions :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present ParAppointment of liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from Clerks and Offi- and after the passing of this Act the Power of Appointment of all such Clerks and Officers as aforesaid, and of all other Clerks in the Police Department of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, or in the Department relating to such Hackney or other Carriages as aforesaid, or to the Receipt of Rents, Fines, Penalties, or Monies in respect of the same, shall be vested in the Chief Secretary or the Under Secretary for the Time being of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and not in the Divisional Justices or any of them. vested in the Chief or Under tenant. Immediate Lessor rated c. 78. may be described as the "Immediate Lessor" in certain Cases. II. And whereas by the said recited Act of the Second and 'Third Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty it is, amongst under 2 & 3 Vict. other things, enacted, that in any Case where the Value of any 'House or Tenement assessed under the said Act shall not amount to Five Pounds, if the Occupier and his Immediate Lessor, by any Writing under their Hands, shall require, and if the said 'Justices shall by a Minute agree thereto, such Immediate Lessor 'shall be rated instead of such Occupier, and such Rebate from the Rate may be made (not exceeding Ten per Centum) as the 'said Justices shall by such Minute allow, and subject to such 'further Regulations as in the said Act contained :' Be it enacted, That in any Case where the Immediate Lessor of any House or Tenement may under the said recited Act be rated instead of the Occupier, if at the Time of making any Rate the Name of such Immediate Lessor be not accurately known to the Persons making the Rate it shall be sufficient to describe him therein as the Immediate Lessor," with or without any Name or further Addition; and such Rate shall be held to be duly made on him or her by such Description, and shall be recoverable from him or her accordingly, notwithstanding any Error or Defect in his or her Name or Description, or the entire Omission of such Name therein. Powers for the III. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the several Collectors authoriz d or appointed to receive the Police Tax or Rate under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or any of them (after such Demand made as in the said recited Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty's Reign mentioned), in addition to all other Modes and Powers heretofore provided by any former Act or Acts, to collect, levy, sue for, and recover the said Police Tax or Rate. or any Part of the same, from all and every Persons and Pers who now are or is or hereafter shall be liable to pay the same. all the Ways and Means, and with the like Remedies and Powers in case of Nonpayment, as the Grand Jury Cess, or the Mony applotted on the several Persons liable to pay the same, may be Divisional Jus collected and levied in any County in Ireland; and the Division Justices of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, or any of them, shall, for the Purposes of raising, levying, or enforci Payment of such Police Tax or Rate, have and exercise the same Powers, Authorities, and Jurisdiction within the Police District of Dublin Metropolis as any Justice or Justices of the Peace of any tices to have same Powers within Dublin Metropolis as Justices have in any County in Ireland. County County in Ireland has or have or can or shall lawfully have or exercise within his or their respective County with respect to any Grand Jury Cess to be raised within the same. 4 to reduce the Fines upon Licences in respect of Carriages under Irish Act 37 G. 3., and to increase the same again. IV. And whereas by the said recited Act of the Parliament of Power to Divi Ireland passed in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Reign of His sional Justices late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending and reducing into One Act of Parliament the Laws relating to Hackney and other Carriages plying in the City of Dublin, its Suburbs and Liberties, and within Seven Miles thereof, it is, ' amongst other things, enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent Magistrate, in case he shall see Occasion, from 'Time to Time to alter and increase the Fines to be paid or the Rents to be reserved upon the Licences by him granted under the said Act now in recital, provided the same be not increased above One Fourth Part more than the Fines and Rents thereinbefore particularly mentioned and expressed, and to make such Rules, Orders, and Regulations for the Purpose as to him shall 'seem meet, and to alter, vary, amend, or annul the same, provided every such Alteration, Rule, Order, and Regulation respecting the Fines or Rents so made by the Superintendent Magistrate 'shall be approved of by the Lord Chancellor or Lords Commis'sioners of the Great Seal, and the Chief Judges, or any Three of them: And whereas no Power is thereby given to reduce the said Fines or Rents, and it is expedient that such Power should be given: Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Divisional Justices of the said Police District, in case they shall think fit, with the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, from Time to Time to reduce the Fines to be paid or the Rents to be reserved upon the Licences heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted in respect of any Carriages under the said last-recited Act, or any Act amending the same, or afterwards from Time to Time, with like Approval, to increase the same as they may see fit, provided that any such Fines or Rents shall not be increased so as at any Time to exceed the Amount now payable for the same. Stands. V. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Power to ComAct it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Police of Dublin, missioners of with the written Approval of the Chief or Under Secretary of the Police to alter Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from Time to Time to appoint or to Hackney Coach alter, as Occasion may require, the Stands or Stations for Hackney or other Carriages, and also Stations commonly called Hazzards for the same, within the Borough of Dublin and the District adjoining the same, as defined in the said last-recited Act, or any Act amending the same. between riage or Omni VI. And be it enacted, That, notwithstanding anything in the Power to Comsaid last-recited Act, or any Act or Acts, it shall and may be missioners of lawful for the said Commissioners of Police to license any Metro- Police to license politan Stage Carriage or Omnibus to ply or carry Passengers any Stage Car any Part of the Borough of Dublin and any other Part bus to ply in of the said Borough or of the District adjoining the same as defined Dublin or the under the said recited Act of the Thirty-seventh Year of King District adjoinGeorge the Third, or any Act amending the same, or between any Part of the said District and any other Part of the said District, and to fix such Rates of Fines and Rents to be paid in respect of such ing. such Licence of any such Metropolitan Stage Carriage or Omnibus, as the said Commissioners shall deem fit, and as shall be approved by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; provided that such Rents and Fines shall not exceed the highest Rate of Rent or Fine now or for the Time being payable in respect of any other Hackney Carriage in Dublin, and no other Duty shall be payable for the same; and the Provisions of the said last-recited Act, and of any Act or Acts amending the same, shall extend and apply to such Čarriages, and to such Rents and Fines, so far as the same are applicable and not repugnant to this Act. VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to grant a Licence to act as Driver of Hackney, Job, and other Carriages licensed for the Accommodation and Conveyance of Passengers, or as Driver or as Conductor of Metropolitan Stage Carriages or Omnibuses, (as the Case may be,) to any Person who shall produce such a Certificate as shall satisfy the said Commissioners of his good Behaviour and Fitness for such Situation respectively; provided always, that no Person shall be licensed as such Driver as aforesaid who is under Sixteen Years of Age; and in every such Licence shall be specified the Number of such Licence, and the proper Name and Surname, and Place of Abode, and Age, and a Description of the Person to whom such Licence shall be granted; and every such Licence shall bear Date on the Day on which the same shall be granted, and shall continue in force until and upon the Thirty-first Day of December next after the Date thereof, or if granted in the Month of November or December in any Year, then to continue in force until and upon the Thirty-first Day of December in the Year next following that in which the same shall be granted, except in either Case the same shall be sooner revoked, and except the Time (if any) during which any such Licence shall be suspended; and on every Licence of a Driver or Conductor the said Commissioners shall cause proper Columns to be prepared, in which every Proprietor (if any) employing the Driver or Conductor named in such Licence shall enter his own Name and Address, and the Days on which such Driver or Conductor shall enter and shaff quit his Service respectively; and in case any of the Particulars entered or endorsed upon any Licence in pursuance of this Act shall be erased or defaced, every such Licence shall be wholly Void and of none Effect; and the said Commissioners shall, at the Time of granting any Licence, deliver to the Driver or Conductor to whom the same shall be granted an Abstract of the Laws in force relating to such Driver or Conductor, and of the Penalties t which he is liable for any Misconduct, and also a Metal Tick upon which there shall be marked or engraved his Office or E ployment, and a Number corresponding with the Number which shall be inserted in such Licence. VIII. And be it enacted, That there shall be charged upon in respect of every such Licence to be granted under the Auth rity of this Act, except as herein-after provided, a Fee of T Shillings and Sixpence, and upon every Renewal of such Licenc a Sum of One Shilling to be paid to the said Commissioners, to be by them applied, after Payment of the Expense of such Ticket, for the Purposes of the said Police Tax or Rate. IX. Azi Drivers, &c. unlicensed Persons to act IX. And be it enacted, That from and after the First Day of Penalty on Per. January in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine sons acting as it shall not be lawful for any Person to act as Driver of any without having Hackney or other Carriage as aforesaid, or as Driver or Con- Licence and ductor of any Metropolitan Stage Carriage or Omnibus, whether Ticket; such Person shall or shall not be the Proprietor of such Carriage, within the Limits of the said Police District, unless in each Case such Person shall have a Licence so to do, and a numbered Ticket granted to him under the Authority of this Act, and remaining in force; and after the Day last aforesaid every Person who shall act as such Driver or Conductor without such Licence and Ticket, and also every Person to whom a Licence and Ticket shall have been granted, who shall, except in compliance with the Provisions of is Act, transfer or lend such Licence, or permit any other Person to use or wear such Ticket, shall for every such Offence forfeit Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings; and every Proprietor who and on Proprie shall knowingly suffer any Person not duly licensed under the tors suffering Authority of this Act to act as Driver of any Hackney or other Carriage as aforesaid, or as Driver or as Conductor of any Metropolitan Stage Carriage or Omnibus, of which he shall be the Proprietor, shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings: Provided always, that nothing herein-before con- Proviso. tained shall subject to any Penalty any Proprietor who shall employ any unlicensed Person to act as such Driver or Conductor as aforesaid for any Time not exceeding Twenty-four Hours, or Any unlicensed Person who shall be so employed for the said Time, upon Proof being adduced by the Proprietor, to the Satisfaction of the Justice before whom such Proprietor, Driver, or Conductor shall be required to attend to answer for such Offences respectively, that such Employment was occasioned by unavoidable Necessity; and that every Proprietor who shall so employ such unlicensed Driver or Conductor, and every such unlicensed Driver or Conductor, shall be subject to all the Powers, Provisions, and Proceedings of and under this Act for any Act done by such Driver or Conductor during such Employment, in like Manner as if such Driver or Conductor had been duly licensed. any as Drivers, &c. sition, &c. for the same. Penalty on Persons making false Representation. X. And be it enacted, That before any such Licence as aforesaid Persons applyshall be granted, a Requisition for the same, in such Form as the ing for Licences said Commissioners shall from Time to Time appoint for that Pur- to sign a Requi. pose, and accompanied with such Certificate as herein-before is required, shall be made and signed by the Person by whom such Licence shall be required, and in every such Requisition all such Particulars as the said Commissioners shall require shall be truly set forth; and every Person applying for or attempting to procure any such Licence, who shall make or cause to be made false Representation in regard to any of the said Particulars, or who shall endeavour to obtain a Licence by any forged Recommendations, or who shall not truly answer all Questions which shall be demanded of him in relation to such Application for a Licence, and also every Person to whom Reference shall be made who shall in regard to such Application wilfully and knowingly make any Misrepresentation, shall forfeit for every such Offence a Sam not exceeding Forty Shillings; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to proceed for recovering of such Penalty 11 & 12 VICT. before 3 C |