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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 51

Number of persons to be carried in a hackney carriage to be painted thereon.

51. No hackney carriage shall be used or employed or let to hire, or shall
stand or ply for hire, within the 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 painted on a plate
placed on some conspicuous place on the outside of such carriage, and in
legible letters, so as to be clearly distinguishable from the colour of the
ground whereon the same are painted, one inch in length, and of a
proportionate breadth; and the driver of any such hackney carriage shall not
be required to carry in or by such hackney carriage a greater number of
persons than the number painted thereon.

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