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444- GENERAL REGULATIONS.
REGULATIONS FOR THE CHAIRMEN, PORTERS, COAL-
CARRIERS, AND PUBLIC CARTERS OF EDINBURGH.
SECTION OP THE EDINBURGH POLICE ACT, RELATIVE TO CHAIRMEN,
PORTERS, COAL-CARRIERS, AND PUBLIC CARTERS.
Sec. 243. "And be it enacted, That no person shall be entitled to act as a Chairman, Public
Carter, Porter, Chimney-Sweeper, or Carrier of Coals, for hire, within the limits of this Act, until
fie is licensed to act in either of these capacities by the Magistrates, who shall cause a Register of
such persons to be kept, and, if they see cause, exact security for their honesty and good conduct ;
and such persons, when so licensed, shall be subject to such Regulations as the Magistrates may
make as conditions of such licence, or otherwise for their government, and for the regulation of
the stands or places such persons shall occupy with their carts, barrows, utensils, or implements,
under such penalties, not exceeding Forty Shillings, as the Magistrates may fix ; and any person
acting in any of the said capacities without having such licence, or after such licence is recalled or
suspended, which the Magistrates are hereby authorized to do at pleasure, shall be subject to a
penalty, not exceeding Forty Shillings, for each offence."
" At Edinburgh, the First day of January,
" One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-nine years.
" 'Which day the Magistrates of Edinburgh having considered the Regulations for the Porters of Edin-
burgh, and also the Regulations for the Chairmen of Edinburgh, made on the fourth day of April 1848, re-
scinded said Regulations, and, in virtue of the 243d section of the Edinburgh Police Act 1848, enacted, and
hereby enact, the following Regulations for the Chairmen, Porters, and Coal-Carriers of Edinburgh.
" W. Johnston, Lord Prwost.
"John Melville, B
"J. H. Stott, B.
" And. Tait, B.
" W. Tullis, B."
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
1. That no person shall be permitted to act as a Chairman, Porter, or Coal-Carrier, within the
limits of the said Act, unless such person shall have been licensed by the Magistrates ; and each
person receiving licence as such shall accept it on the condition that he shall observe these Regu-
lations, and any others the Magistrates may from time to time enact. Every person so licensed
shall wear a Badge, with his name thereon, on the breast of his outer garment ; and no person re-
ceiving such Badge shall transfer or lend it to another.
2. That, before receiving such licence, he shall produce a certificate of his good character, and
shall also find caution acted in the Burgh Court Books for his good behaviour, honesty, and intro-
missions, and to observe and obey these Regulations, or any others the Magistrates may think
proper to make for regulating Chairmen, Porters, or Coal-Carriers, under the penalty of Forty
Shillings, attour performance ; and when his cautioner dies, or leaves the city, the Chairman, Por-
ter, or Coal-Carrier shall give intimation thereof to the Depute City Clerk, and find another cau-
tioner.
3. That every Chairman, Porter, or Coal-Carrier shall serve the lieges with fidelity and discre-
tion, and shall not, under any pretence whatever, refuse employment when otherwise not actually
engaged or employed ; and if he shall plead a prior engagement at other work, he shall state the
nature thereof, and give his employer's name if required.
4. That every Chairman, Porter, or Coal-Carrier shall conduct himself in a proper, civil, and de-
corous manner at all times ; and shall, when required by any party, produce and shew these Regu-
lations and his Badge, under the penalty of forfeiting his hire, and such other penalty as the
Magistrates may inflict.
5. That no Chairman or Porter shall be allowed to pass hip. stance and go to another for em-
ployment, unless specially called for (the employer to prove the special call) ; and no Porter shall
canvass about the streets for employment.