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Governors of work-house in Cork, 15 present, shall licence for 21 years from 1 June 1762 hackney coaches, chairs &c. in Cork or the Liberties;
and limit the number from time to time;
on payment of 20s. fine;
reserving 20 s. yearly each coach or post-chaise,
each chair 10s.
payable quarterly:
with covenants for payment as by said governors thought fit.
Penalty 10 l. every coach or post-chaise plying without licence;
5 l. every chair.
when licenced, marked and numbered on each side:
Penalty 30 s. for going without, or defacing or changing such mark.
said several sums, rents, and penalties, paid to treasurer for the work-house
Penalties recovered before said governors, or any 5, summarily, on oath, after 1 summons.
and levied on warrant by distress and sale, if not paid in 10 days;
for want of distress, to house of correction, not exceeding a month.
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XI. And whereas several persons have for some years past kept hackney coaches, post chaises, chairs, and sedans, to ply for hire within the said city of Cork, and the liberties thereto adjoining: and whereas the regulating the rates and fares of the said hackney coaches, post chaises, chairs, and sedans, and of the drivers and carriers of the same, within the said city and liberties, will prevent many impositions being made on the inhabitants of the said city and liberties, and will tend to provide for the uses of the work-house established in said city; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two the governors of the work-house of the said city of Cork, fifteen at least being present, shall and may be authorized and required under their common seal to licence for the term of twenty one years from the said first day of June one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two all such person or persons, as shall keep, drive, or carry any hackney coaches, post-chaises, chairs, or sedans, plying for hire within the said city of Cork or liberties thereto adjoining, and from time to time to limit the number of such coaches, post-chaises, chairs, and sedans, as the said governors shall think proper; and that the governors of the said work-house shall for every licence, to be granted for each coach and post chaise, be paid the sum of twenty shillings by way of fine, before such licence shall be delivered; and that upon every licence for each coach or post-chaise there shall be reserved to the governors of the said work-house and their successors the yearly rent of twenty shillings, and for each chair or sedan ten shillings; to be paid quarterly, on every first day of September, first day of December, first day of March, and first day of May in every year; with such covenants therein to be inserted for the more effectual payment thereof, as the said governors, or any fifteen or more of them shall think fit: and that no person shall keep, drive, carry, or let to hire any coach, post-chaise, chair, or sedan, to ply within the said city or liberties, without such licence first obtained, under the penalty of ten pounds for every coach or post-chaise, and five pounds for every chair or sedan, which shall so ply contrary to this act; and that every coach, post-chaise, chair, or sedan, so to be licenced, shall have a mark of distinction by a figure on a large brass plate, with the number in large figures; and that the said mark shall be placed on each side of every such coach, post-chaise, chair, or sedan, in such manner as the said governors shall think proper, and that every coachman, driver, chairman, or carriers of any coach, post-chaise, chair, or sedan, plying for hire as aforesaid, who shall drive or carry without such mark of distinction or figure any coach, post chaise, chair or sedan, or if any person shall blot out, deface, or change the mark or figure appointed for such coach, post-chaise, chair, or sedan, every person, so offending, for every such offence shall forfeit thirty shillings: and that the said sums so to be paid for licences, and the yearly rents to be reserved therein, and also the aforesaid several penalties, shall go, and be paid to he treasurer of the said work-house for the use of the said work-house; and that the said several penalties aforesaid, and also the several penalties and forfeitures herein after mentioned, shall and may be recovered before the governors of the said work-house, or before five or more of them, in a summary way, on proof being made before them on oath, after one summons to the party offending, and shall be levied by distress and sale of the offenders goods and chattles by warrant under the hand and seal of such governors, or any five or more of them, unless such penalty be paid within ten days after such distress be taken, and that the overplus; (if any be) all charges being deduced, be paid to the owner; and that in case no sufficient distress can be had to answer the said penalties respectively, the person and persons so offending shall by warrant under the hand and seal of the said governors, or any five or more of them, be sent to the house of correction; there to be kept to hard labour for any time, not exceeding one month.
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