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PUBLIC VEHICLES AND CHAIR ORDINANCE,

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5. Or failing within Twenty-four Hours after the expiration of such License to deliver

up the same to the Registrar General;

6. Or carelessly driving any Vehicle or carrying any Chair to the danger of any Person

or Property whatsoever;

7. Or using any insulting Language or being guilty of any rude Behaviour whilst

employed;

8. Or keeping the wrong side of the Road without reasonable excuse for so doing;

9. Or refusing when unemployed to accept hire, without reasonable cause for so re-

fusing;

10. Or demanding more than the authorized Fare;

11. Or not travelling with reasonable expedition;

12. Or leaving his Fare before the engagement shall have been completed;

13. Or when unemployed allowing his Chair to remain in any other Place than at one of

the Stands which the Registrar General is herein before authorized to appoint; 14. Or sitting or lying in a Public Vehicle or Chair;

And being convicted thereof, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding Ten Dollars for each and every Offence.

No Person to let

or driven without License.

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XIII. No Person shall let for hire or offer to let for hire by the Hour, Day, Week or Job for any period less than Thirty Days any Horses, &c., to be ridden Horse or other Animal to be ridden or driven without having obtained a Half-yearly License for the same from the Office of the Registrar General, upon the granting of each of which Licenses a Fee of One Dollar in respect of every such Horse or other Animal so to be licensed to be let shall be payable. Every Person who shall let for hire. or offer to let for hire any Horse or other Animal without having such License as is by this Section required shall be subject for each offence to a penalty not ex- ceeding Fifty Dollars.

Penalty on Persons en- gaging Vehicle or Chair and not paying fare or injuring Vehicles or Chairs or illtreating or abusing Driver or Bearer.

XIV. In case any Person having engaged a Vehicle or Chair or Horse shall refuse or neglect to pay the Fare for the same forthwith upon the termination of the hiring, or in case any Person whatever shall wilfully injure or damage any Public Vehicle or Chair or shall beat, ill-treat or use abusive Language towards the Driver or Bearer of any Public Vehicle or Chair, every such Person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars and to pay and make good to the Owner, Driver or Bearer a proper Com- pensation to be adjudged by the Magistrate, and in every case Compensation for the loss. of time of Owner, Driver or Bearer and his Witnesses; and such Compensation shall be recovered by the same means as the penalty.

XV. All Penalties imposed hereby shall be sued for and recovered under Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.

XVI. This Ordinance shall come into operation on and from the

First Day of October, 1863.

Mode of recovering Penalties.

Commencement of Or-

dinance.

SCALE of FARES for the Hire of Licensed Vehicles, Horses, Chairs, and Chair Bearers

within the Colony of Hongkong.

Vehicles.

Per day, One horse,.....

$5.00, Two horses,

Half day,

3.00,

""

Hour,

1.00,

"

""

Job, as per agreement.

Horses.

Per day, each,

Half day,

""

Hour,

55

Job, as per agreement.

$6.00

3.50

1.50

$3.00

2.00

1.00