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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 62

Penalties in case of carriages being unattended at places of public resort.

62. If the driver of any such hackney carriage leave it in any street or at
any place of public resort or entertainment, whether it be hired or not,
without some one proper to take care of it, any constable may drive away such
hackney carriage and deposit it, and the horse or horses harnessed thereto, at
some neighbouring livery stable or other place of safe custody; and such
driver shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#10] for such offence; and
in default of payment of the said penalty upon conviction, and of the expences
of taking and keeping the said hackney carriage and horse or horses, the same,
together with the harness belonging thereto, or any of them, shall be sold by
order of the justice before whom such conviction is made, and after deducting
from the produce of such sale the amount of the said penalty, and of all costs
and expences, as well of the proceedings before such justice as of the taking,
keeping, and sale of the said hackney carriage, and of the said horse or
horses and harness, the surplus (if any) of the said produce shall be paid to
the proprietor of such hackney carriage.

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