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PUBLIC CONVEYANCES.
immediately under the window, in Koman Letters not
less than one inch in height, and of proportionate
breadth, in a colour conspicuously different from that of
the Carriage, and be contuiued legible dm-ing all the
time the Carriage shall ply or be used for hire.
Number of License to he painted or affixed
on Outside of Carrriage.
The number of the License for each Carriage shall
be painted on the Carriage, to be affixed on
the back, and to be distinctly visible from the
outside, and in figures not less than one inch in
height, and of proportionate breadth, and be kept
legible during all the time the Carriage shall ply or
be used for hire.
Licenses to he numbered Consecutively and
Duplicate signed by the Registrar.
The Licenses shall be numbered consecutively, in
the order in which the same shall have been regis-
tered ; and each Owner, at the time of receiving his
License, shall be furnished with a Duplicate of such
License, signed by the Eegistrar.
When Carnages cease to ply.
Whenever a Licensed Carriage ceases to ply, the
Proprietor thereof shall give intimation immediately
to the Eegistrar, Central Police Buildings, and shall
return the License to him, provided the repairs are
•not finished within twenty-one days. Whenever a
Licensed Carriage is sold by the Proprietor in whose
name the License has been granted, or otherwise ceases
to be his property, the License will lapse and become
•null and void.
Carriages to he in readiness.
The Owner of each Licensed Carriage shall have
the same ready for hire at one of the Public Stands
from Nine o'clock in the morning until Eleven o'clock
•at night, unless when engaged. And when within
their respective yards, coach-houses, or stables, shall
turn out for hire as soon as practicable, or can be
done without injury to his servants or horses, after
'being called upon, between Eleven o'clock at night
and Nine in the morning.
Carriages let out for Sire at other places, or
met with, if not engaged.
All Carriages let out on any station or place for
Jiire shall be subject to the Stand Eules ; as also
Carriages when met with if not at the time actually
Carriages to take their places on Stands in the
order of their arrival.
All Carriages shall take their station on the
Street Stands in the order of their arrival, and at
such distance from each other as that persons walk-
ing may conveniently pass between them ; and when
any Carriage shall be called or driven off any
Stand, the Carriage immediately behind shall draw
up to the place vacated, and any other Carriage be-
hind in the like order, and when a vacancy shall occur
at the lower end of the line, it may be taken up by
the first Carriage from the next division of the Stand,
or if the first shall not be driven to it, then by the
second, and so on in the order of the line. After
setting down a fare, the Carriage may proceed to the
nearest stand at which there is room.
Arrangement of Carriages at places of Public
Amusement and Assembly.
All Carriages ordered back for a party, at any
place of public amusement or assembly, shall have
the preference of drawing up nearest to the door or
entrance of such place, and shall drive up in the order
in which they arrive. When a party is put down
the Driver shall immediately pass on and not wait
at the door, but take such place as the Police may
direct ; and aU Carriages waiting for hire at any such
place shall stand on the opposite side of the street, or
at such other place as the Police may on such occa-
sions durect, for the purpose of preventing confusion.
DEIVEKS.
Every Driver shall, when he receives his License, ,
be furnished with a Badge by the Eegistrar,
and shall leave Half-a-Crown as security for the
Badge, which sum will be returned when the Badge •
is given up. In the event of the Badge being in-
jured while in possession of the Driver, the expenses
of any necessary repairs will be deducted from the
sum deposited.
He shall wear the Badge displayed conspicu-
ously on his left breast above his outer garment,
while on the stand or di-iving, or otherwise employed
as a Driver, except when engaged at a marriage, or
funeral, or country excursion, or airing, when he may
wear his Badge concealed.
No Driver to lend or permit any other person
to use his License or Badge, or to wear any other
Badge than the one issued to him by the Eegistrar.
Every Driver who ceases to act, or whose License
shall have been suspended by the Magistrate, or
shall have expired, shall, within three days there-
after, deliver his License and Badge at the office of
the Eegistrar.
He shall always have with him while on the Stand,
or driving, a copy of the Clauses of the Glasgow
Police Act, 1866, relative to Hackney Carriages and
Drivers; also Bye-laws, and Tables of Fares and
Distances, and Duplicate of Carriage License, and
Eeference Ticket, which he will exhibit, on demand,
to any Constable, or to any person who has hired or
used his Carriage, or who is about to do so ; which
Clauses, Bye-laws, or Tables of Distances, with the
Duplicates of Carriage License, he will keep in a tin
case, that they may at all times be clean and legible.
He shall keep his Can-iage Lamps lighted, while
driving, after sunset and before sunrise, during the
months of October, November, December, January,
and February.
Every Driver shall be cleanly in his person, and
shall, when on the Stand or driving, wear a good
hat, and other good, clean, and respectable clothes,
and shall conduct himself, at all times, in a proper,
civil, and decorous manner.
Driver to deliver Heference Ticket to Hirer of
Carriage.
Every Driver shall tender to the person hiring his
Carriage, when entering the Carriage, a Ticket,
according to the pattern shown in the office of the
Eegistrar, havmg printed thereon the number of the
Carriage and of the Driver, the name and address of
the Proprietor, and the following words — " Eeference
in case of incivUity, loss, or overcharge."
Driver not to stand or Loiter in streets appro-
priated as Public Stands when full number
of Carriages on Stand.
No Driver of any Carriage shall stand or loiter
with the same in any of the squares, streets, or places
appropriated as Public Stands, at the time when the