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London Hackney Carriage Act 1831
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XXIIPenalty for using, &c. a Hackney Carriage without Licence, or without Plates, or for not delivering up recalled Plates, 10l.
And be it enacted, That if any Person shall keep, use, employ, or let to Hire any Hackney Carriage at any Place within the Distance of Five Miles from the General Post Office in the City of London, without having a Licence in force so to do, or without having the proper numbered Plates properly placed and fixed upon such Hackney Carriage in the Manner required by this Act; or if any Person to whom any Licence shall have been granted under this Act to keep, use, employ, or let to Hire a Hackney Carriage, shall not, within One Week after Notice given to him, in the Manner directed by this Act, that the Stamp Office Plate to which such Licence shall relate hath been recalled, deliver up the Plate mentioned in such Notice, according to the Terms thereof, and produce the Licence relating to such Plate, and apply for a new Plate, and fix such new Plate upon his Hackney Carriage in the Manner directed by this Act, every such Person so offending in any of the several Cases aforesaid shall forfeit Ten Pounds.
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