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Governors of work-house are hereby empowered to license persons who keep hackney coaches, post chaises, chairs, or sedans, and to limit the number thereof.
Regulations and powers to be same as by recited act 1 Geo. 3. and also by recited act 3 Geo. 3.
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LXIII. And whereas doubts are entertained whether under any law or laws not existing, the governors of the work-house of the city of Cork have at present a power to grant licences for, or to limit the number, or to make regulations for the government of any coach, post chaise, chair, or sedan, or of the keepers, drivers, or carriers of the same plying for hire within said city or the liberties thereof, be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the governors of the work-house of the said city, fifteen at least being present, shall, and are hereby authorized and required, from time to time, and at all times for ever hereafter, under their common seal to licence for the term of twenty-one years from the date of each licence, all such person or persons as shall keep, drive, or carry any hackney coaches, post chaises, chairs, or sedans, or any hackney coach, post chaise, chair or sedan plying for hire within the said city of Cork, or the liberties thereof, and also from time to time, for ever hereafter, to limit the number of such coaches, post chaises, chairs and sedans, in such manner as the said governors of the said work-house shall think proper, and that every such hackney coach, post chaise, chair and sedan, plying for hire within the said city of Cork, or the liberties thereof licensed pursuant to this act, and the keeper, driver, or carrier of every such hackney coach, post chaise, chair, sedan, shall, in all respects be subject to the same regulations, and entitled to the same privileges, and the governors of the said work-house shall have the same powers and authorities over them, and for the government and regulation of them, as are provided enacted, and expressed in and by an act of parliament made in the first year of his present majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for the more easy and equal assessing and applotting all money presented by the grand jury of each assizes, to be held for the said city and county of the city of Cork, and for putting the coaches, chaises, chairs, and sedans that ply for hire in the said city under the like regulations, for the benefit of the work-house of Cork as they are in Dublin, and also for the better regulating the harbour of Cork; and also by one other act of parliament made in the third year of his present majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for continuing and amending certain temporary statutes heretofore made for the better regulation of the city of Cork, and for enlarging the salary of the treasurer, and for the better regulating the sale of coals in the said city, and for erecting and continuing lamps in the same, and for the better preserving the streets and highways therein, and for confirming and establishing a court of conscience in the said city, and for regulating the assize of bread therein, and for saving the quays by parapet walls, whereby the said first mentioned act, with the several clauses therein contained, was made perpetual, with the amendments and explanations in said last mentioned act contained with respect to hackney coaches, post chaises, chairs, and sedans, and the keepers, drivers, and carriers thereof, licenced as mentioned in the said acts, or either of them.
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