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Commissioners to appoint or alter Places for CarriageStands, and limit the Number of Carriages at each.
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XLIX. It shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners to order and direct the Route of Hackney Carriages, when proceeding from One Stand to another, and from Time to Time to appoint proper Places or Stations within the Limits of this Act, where Hackney Carriages, Stage Carriages, and Carts licensed for that Purpose may stand for Hire; and from Time to Time to alter any Stands or Stations, and to limit the Number of Hackney Carriages, Stage Carriages, and Carts to stand in each of such Places, and to direct and regulate the Spaces and Intervals to be left between the Carriages and Carts at such Stands and Places, and in all respects to regulate the Manner in which Carriages and Carts shall stand thereat respectively; and it shall also be lawful for the said Commissioners to inspect or cause to be inspected by such Person or Persons as they shall appoint in that Behalf all such Carriages and Carts to be licensed under this Act, and the Horses and Harness employed to draw such Carriages and Carts respectively, at such Times and Places as the said Commissioners shall for that Purpose appoint, and to that End require that all Carriages and Carts, Horses and Harness, to be inspected as aforesaid, shall be produced before them or before such Person or Persons as they shall appoint, at such Times and Places as they shall direct; and in case any Person shall refuse or neglect to obey or comply with any Order or Direction made or given by the said Commissioners in pursuance of the Powers hereby vested in them, every Person so offending shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings.
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