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such other places as the Magistrates from time to time
may appoint.
7mo, Coachmen are not on any account to plead prior
engagements when their services are required, nor shall
they be allowed to draw to one side of the stand under
pretence of being engaged, so as to have the pick of
work, but their coaches being on, or near the stand, to
be considered a proof of their being disengaged.
8110, That upon failure of performing any engagement
undertaken by any of the owners of hackriey-coaehes or
their coachmen, they shall be liable in a penalty of ten
shillings, and also forfeit any claim for hire, for having
performed part of the engagement only.
9«o, That uo fares higher than those in the prefixed
table shall be demanded or taken ; and if any coachman
shall be convicted of imposing on his employers, or abstracting
the fares from his master, he shall be punished
with seventy ; and every coachman shall have in his
pocket a printed copy of these regulations and annexed
tables on a piece of parchment to be kept in a tin-box,
with the number of the coach painted on it, to be in pussession
of the coachman at all times when on duty, and
which must be shewn to every employer when demand-
ed, under a penalty not exceeding five shillings.
lOmo, That any coachman on misbehaviour, by abu-
sive language or otherwise, upon being convicted thereof,
the Magistrates may revoke his licence, or inflict a penalty
; and on non-payment he shall be committed to prison
till the same is paid.
IIoto, That the coachman, after setting down a company,
shall drive to the nearest stand, and if the number
of coaches ordered to stand there is not complete, he shall
remain for the service of the public.
12/wo, That at least one-fourth part of the coaches by
rotation shall ply on Sundays, from ten o'clock forenoon
! until ten at night, at the ordinary fares.
l3tio, That the fare to Leith, during the race week,
for one hour before and one hour after the horses start-
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