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Drivers not to act without licences. 83. No hackney carriage shall stand or ply for hire within such prescribed distance, unless the number of persons to be carried by such hackney carriage, in words at length, and in form following, (that is to say,) "to carry persons," be printed on some conspicuous place on the outside of such carriage, in legible letters, so as to be clearly distinguishable from the ground whereon the same are painted; and the driver of any hackney carriage shall not be required to carry a greater number of persons than the number painted thereon; and if the proprietor of any hackney carriage permit the same to be used, or if any person stand or ply for hire with such carriage, without having the number of persons to be carried thereby painted in manner aforesaid, or if the driver of any hackney carriage refuse, when required by the hirer thereof, to carry in or by such hackney carriage such number of persons, or any less number, every proprietor or driver so offending shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#2]; and any driver of a hackney carriage standing at any of the stands for hackney carriages, or in any street, who refuses or neglects, without reasonable excuse, to drive such carriage to any place within such prescribed distance, or any distance to be appointed by any byelaw of the [district council], to which he is directed to drive by the person hiring or wishing to hire such carriage, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#2].
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