Persons should be very particular as soon as they have called a hackney coach, to observe the number before they get into it. This precaution guards against impositions or unforeseen accidents. There is no other method of punishing coachmen who misbehave, nor chance of recovering property carelessly left in a coach, but by the recollection of the number. It is the duty of every person to refuse to get into any hackney coach which is in a dirty or unsourd condition, and in which the horses are lame or decrepid, and the magistrates will justify such refusal although the coach be called. If the men who drive carts or drays behave ill, or do any damage, satisfaction or recompence may be obtained with the greatest ease, on taking their number, and summoning them before the commissioners, or magistrates, who, on all occasions pay due respect to the complainant, and are sufficiently severe upon offenders. In walking the streets by night, if a person is in any way attacked or assaulted by thieves or others, he should instantly call the watch. A cry of "watch," three or four times repeated, will instantly bring up the assistance of several of the watchmen, and it is ten to one if the thief or assailant make his escape. Robberies by night, however, very seldəm occur in the streets of London. In asking questions, or inquiring the way, it is necessary always to apply at a shop or public-house, and never to rely upon the information which may be given by persons in the streets. In walking the streets, much unpleasant jostling will be saved, by attending to the established eastom of giving the wall to the person whose risht hand is towards it or, in other words, by keep ug the left hand always towards the persons who passing in a contrary direction. This rule in walking is the opposite to that upon the road. D.N. SHURY, Printer, Berwick Street, Solo, re For forty minutes For every twenty minutes after Time. For a day (not to exceed twelve hours), and before twelve o'clock at night, and not to exceed twenty miles o Abstracts of the Acts of Parliament relating to Hackney Coaches. EVERY Hackney Coachman is obliged, (unless he shall have been out twelve hours,) to go to any place within ten miles, in case he shall have time to return by sunset, or the fare shall undertake to return in the coach. And at any hour of the night (unless he shall have been out twelve hours,) to go upon all public turnpike roads, that shall be lighted up, any where within the distance of two miles and an half from the ends or extreme parts of the several carriage-way pavements of the cities of London and Westminster, or the suburbs thereof, where a regular continuation of carriage-way pavement doth extend. All the space betwixt the stand and the taking up of the fare is to be reckoned into the fare; and the coachman at liberty to take either for the length of ground or time, but not for both. Night Fares. Every coach hired between twelve o'clock at night and six in the morning, is intitled to demand sixpence on every shilling in addition to the established rates; no fraction less than sixpence, either for ground or time, to be reckoned; but any coach taken between the hours of ten and twelve at night, is not intitled to the said halt fare, even if not discharged till after twelve, except the fare shall exceed Two Shillings, Coaches taken out of Town. Every coach driven into the country, and discharged at such period of time as will prevent its return before sun-set, to the nearest stones-end, or to the out stand from which it may have been taken, at the rate of five miles in the hour, in such case to be allowed sixpence per mile for such ground he may have to return before sun-set, and full fare for such remaining groundas remains after sun-set, computing the full fare into one ground or distance, as if the fare returned in the coach; but if the sun is set at the time of discharge, in such case full fare for the whole ground. Ꮮ Ꮮ FARES REGULATED BY THE PRICE OF OATS. When the average price of oats, computed according to 31 Geo. 3. c. 30. shall exceed 25s. per quarter, the commissioners may cause an addition to be made to the Fares: viz. Upon every fare amounting to two shillings, the additional sum of sixpence. Upon every fare amounting to four shillings, the addiditional sum of one shilling. And so upon every increase of two shillings, the additional sum of sixpence. But such additional fare is not to be payable unless the coach be taken the full distance, or kept in waiting the full period for which the original fare is allowed, and the commissioners are to publish notice of the increase in the Gazette; which increase may be continued till thirty days after the average price of oats shall be reduced to one guinea per quarter. When the average price of oats are reduced to one guinea per quarter, the following deductions must be made on all the fares: Above Two Shillings, and under Five Shillings, Sixpence; Five Shillings, and under Seven Shillings and Sixpence, One Shilling, Seven Shillings and Sixpence, and under Ten Shillings, One Shilling and Sixpence; Ten Shillings and upwards, Two Shillings. Of which reduction the commissioners are to give notice in the London Gazette. Hackney Coachmen offending. All coachmen who ply for hire at the theatres, or other places of pub fic resort, or who shall place their coaches at the side of the street, of in any situation where they do not usually ply, shall be considered liable to be hired and taken, as if on a stand. And on complaint being made to the commissioners, will be fined for refusal, unless such coachman shall produce positive proof of being actually hired at the time; and if such proof shall be really brought forward, in such case the commissioners have power to award to such coachman a reasonable compensation for loss of time on being summoned, If any coachman shall refuse to go at these rates, or exact more, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 31. nor under ros. and on misbehaviour, by abusive language, or otherwise, the commissioners may revoke his licence, or inflict a penalty; and on non-payment, he shall be committed to Bridewell, and he kept to hard labour, for thirty days.-The Commissioners Office is at Somerset Place. N. B. Persons complaining of imposition, or ill treatment, are always heard with attention by the Comingissioners.or Magistrates, before whom they present their complaint. C The Commissioners List for regulating the Price and Measurement of One Shilling, Eighteenpenny, and Two Shilling Fares, according to the late Act of Parliament.. ONE SHILLING FARES. The Distance not exceeding One Mile. Palace-yard, Westminster. First coach to the end of Catharine-street, Strand Whitehall. The centre of the Horse Guards, to Palsgrave-head-court, Ditto, to Berkeley-street, Piccadilly Charing-cross. The Golden-cross, to White-horse-street, Piccadilly Strand. Catharine-street, to Watling-street, St. Paul's Temple-bar. To the second Scotland-yard, Whitehall Bridge-street, Fleet-street. The first coach to St. Peter's church, Cornhill St. Paul's Church-yard. The first coach to Beaufort-buildings, Strand Cheapside. Gutter-lane, to Featherstone-buildings, Holborn Ditto, to Whitechapel bars Cornhill. The centre of the Royal-exchange to Great-garden-street, Whitechapel Ditto, to Water-lane, Fleet-street Ditto, to Hatton-garden, Holborn Whitechapel. First coach next the Three Nons, to Cheapside-conduit King's-road, Gray's-inn-iane. First coach to Cheapside-conduit Ditto, to Rathbone-place, Oxford-road Holborn. The end of Hatton-garden, to the Royal-exchange Ditto to Denmark-street, St. Giles's The end of Southampton buildings, to Bedford-street Ditto, to King-street, Cheapside The end of Red-lion-street, to Buckingham-street, Strand The Vine Tavern, to Ivy-lane, Newgate-street M. F. P. 0 7 28 Oxford-road. The end of Rathbone-place, to Orchard-street The end of Bond-street, to Vine-street, St. Giles's The Golden-lion, to Oxendon-street, Coventry-street The first coach to Paul's-chain, St. Paul's church. King's-street, Cheapside. Cateaton-street, to St. Dunstan's church, Fleet-street Clerkenwell. Opposite the Close, to Bread-street, Cheapside Buckingham-gate. Opposite the gate, to the Treasury, Whitehall M. F. P. 10 7-16 07 20 Q 7 29 O7 28 0 7 25 7 32 07 28 0 7 32 732 0 7 27 0 7 29 0 7 27 EIGHTEEN-PENNY FARES. The Distance not exceeding One Mile and a Half. Palace-yard, Westminster. The centre of the Horse Guards, to the Old Bailey, Ludgate-hill I 3 20 Ditto, to the turnpike at Hyde-park Corner Charing-cross. The Golden Cross, to the end of Grosvenor-place, Hyde-park Ditto, to Watling-street, St. Paul's Church-yard Strand. To Little Abingdon-buildings, Westminster To Biliter-lane, Leadenhall-street Bridge-street, Flect-street. The first coach, to Somerset-street, Whitechapel Ditto, to Downing-street, Parliament-street St. Paul's Church-yard. The first coach, to the end of Pall Mall, Cockspur-street Cheapside. Gutter-lane to Dyot-street, St. Giles's Ditto to Whitechapel Work-house I 327 Cornhill. The centre of the Royal Exchange, to Dog-row, Mile-end * 321 |