57 G. 3. c. 59. selves or by the commissioners of stamps in G. B. or some of them, to be authorised for that purpose under the hands of the said commissioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, to let to farm the said several duties granted by the said act of the 44 Geo. 3. c. 98. and in respect of horses, mares, and geldings hired in the manner aforesaid, to such person or persons as shall be willing to farm the same after the expiration of the present leases thereof, in such separate and particular districts, and for such term or time as shall be deemed proper, and under the regulations and restrictions contained in the said act of the 27 Geo. 3. c. 26. with regard to the duties thereby authorised to be let to farm, so far as the same are applicable, and not hereby altered: provided that none of the said duties shall be let to farm for any longer term than until the 31st of January, 1821.

Powers of

27 G. 3. c. 26.

to be in force with regard to

the duties to be

let to farm

under this act. Deposit to be made by persons contracting to farm the duties.

Power to let

duties by private contract, if not let by auction.

Commissioners of stamps to depute the farmers

of the duties to be collectors.

§ 2. All the powers, provisions, &c. contained in the said act of the 27 Geo. 3. shall be deemed to be in full force with respect to the said duties hereby allowed to be let to farm, and to the letting thereof, and to the farmers thereof, and to all other persons and things relating thereto, as fully and effectually as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted.

3. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners of the trea sury, or any three or more of them, or the said commissioners of stamps authorised as aforesaid, to prescribe the time for making a deposit of a sum of money, and the amount thereof, on account of the rent to be paid by the person who shall be the best bidder for, and be declared the farmer of any of the said duties hereby allowed to be farmed; and in case any such person shall fail to make such deposit at the time prescribed, or shall fail to execute a proper contract in writing, and to give security for the payment of the rent and the due performance of such contract, in the manner directed by the said act of 27 Geo. 3. within the time to be appointed for that purpose, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said commissioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, or the said commissioners of stamps authorised as aforesaid, to declare the bidding and contract of such person null and void, and his deposit, if made, forfeited, and to cause the duties whereof he shall have been declared the farmer to be again put up, to be let to farm pursuant to the directions of this and the said act of the 27 Geo. 3. and so from time to time as often as such failure shall be made.

§ 4. Provides, that if the said duties arising in any district shall not be let to farm at the time to be fixed by public advertisement, pursuant to the directions of this and the said act of the 27 Geo. S. for want of a sufficient bidding, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, or the said commissioners of stamps authorised as aforesaid, at any time afterwards to receive proposals for farming such duties, and to let the same to farm by private contract, for any term or time not extending the said 31st of January, 1821.

§ 5. It shall be lawful for the commissioners of stamps in G. B. or the major part of them, from time to time as occason shall require, to depute and appoint not only the persons who shall become farmers or lessees of the said duties, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, but also any other person or persons, at the request and upon the nomination, and for the use of such

farmers or lessees, or their executors, administrators, or assigns, 57 G.3. c. 59. to be collectors of the said duties arising within their respective districts, with full powers to grant the necessary licences to persons within the respective districts for letting out horses to hire in the manner aforesaid, and to take securities by bonds from the persons to be licensed, in the name of his majesty, his heirs and successors, with such conditions as are required by the acts relating to the said duties, and to receive the stamp office weekly accounts, by the acts relating to the said duties directed and required to be delivered by persons letting horses to hire in the manner aforesaid, within their respective districts, and the money due thereon, and to administer the oath or affirmation hereinafter required to be made as to the truth of the accounts to be delivered by the persons licensed under the said acts, and generally to execute and do all other the powers, matters, and things touching the collecting, managing, and enforcing the payment of the said duties within and for their respective districts, which by the several acts of parliament relating to the said duties are given to and authorised to be done by any collector or collectors of the said duties.

Regulation as

to stamp duty on deputations.

hire.

§ 6. Notwithstanding any thing to the contrary contained in an act of the 55 Geo. 3. e. 184. for repealing the stamp duties on deeds and other instruments in G. B., and for granting other duties in lieu thereof, no deputation or commission to be hereafter granted pursuant to the said herein-before-mentioned acts and this act, appointing any person to be a collector of the said duties on horses, mares, and geldings hired in the manner aforesaid, shall be chargeable with any higher stamp-duty than 17. 158. § 7. After the 31st day of January, 1818, all licences for Regulation as letting horses to hire which shall be granted in pursuance of the to licences for said herein-before mentioned acts or any of them, between the letting horses to 31st of January, and the 16th of March in any year, shall be dated on the 1st of February; and all licences for letting horses to hire which shall be granted in pursuance of the said acts or any of them, at any other time, shall be dated on the day on which the same shall be granted, and all such licences respectively shall have effect and continue in force from the day of the date thereof, until the 31st of January following, both inclusive, and no longer. § 8. After the 31st day of January, 1818, all the regulations Repeal of proand provisions contained in the said acts of the 48. 51 & 54 Geo. 3., for better securing and facilitating the recovery of the said duties granted by the said act of the 44 Geo. 3. in respect of horses, mares, and geldings hired in the manner aforesaid, and also all the provisions of the said herein-before mentioned act of the 42 Geo. 3. which by force of the said act of the 44 Geo. 3. are now applicable to any of the same duties, shall cease as to all the said duties arising after the said 31st day of January, and as to all matters and things to be done and performed in respect thereof.

visions in the 48. 51 & 54

G. 5.

§ 9. After the 31st day of January, 1818, all the powers, Provisions of provisions, regulations, and directions, fines, forfeitures, pains, 25 G. 3. reand penalties, contained in and imposed by the said act of the specting hirings 25 Geo. 3., for the raising, levying, collecting, and securing of for a day and for the duties thereby granted for and in respect of horses hired for a days, to be apday or less period of time, for drawing on any public road any plied to hirings

two or more

for less than twenty-eight days, and to hirings for twenty-eight days or above.

57 G. 5. c. 59. coach or other carriage used in travelling post or otherwise, both where the distance to be travelled should be ascertained and where not, (save and except the provision which declares that every horse hired for any less period than two successive complete days shall be deemed to be hired for a day,) shall, so far as the same shall be consistent with the express provisions of this act, be observed applied, enforced, and put in execution for the raising, levying, collecting, and securing of the said duties granted by the said act of the 44 Geo. 3., for and in respect of horses, mares, and geldings hired for a less period of time than twenty-eight successive days, for drawing on any public road any coach or other carriage used in travelling post or otherwise, both where the distance to be travelled shall be ascertained and where not respectively, as fully and effectually as if the same had been inserted and specially enacted in this act, with such alterations and variations as may be necessary for applying the same to the said last-mentioned duties and hirings; and all the powers, provisions, regulations, and directions, fines, forfeitures, pains, and penalties, contained in and imposed by the said act of the 25 Geo.3. with respect to horses hired for two or more days for drawing any carriage used in travelling as aforesaid, shall, so far as the same shall be consistent with the express provisions of this act, be observed, applied, enforced, and put into execution with respect to horses, mares, and geldings hired for twenty-eight successive days or above, for drawing any carriage used in travelling as aforesaid, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the same had been inserted and specially enacted in this act, with such alterations and variations as may be necessary for applying the same to hirings of the description last mentioned.

Commissioners of stamps to supply proper tickets and ex

change tickets,

to be filled up and used for denoting hirings

for a less time

than twentyeight days.

$10. The said commissioners of stamps shall supply all persons who shall be licensed to let horses to hire in the manner aforesaid, with proper and convenient tickets, and the toll-gate keepers with proper and convenient exchange tickets, for denoting hirings for any less period of time than twenty-eight successive days, both where the distance to be travelled shall be ascertained and where not; all which tickets and exchange tickets shall specify the num ber of horses to be let to hire as heretofore; and the original tickets shall have blanks to be filled up with the day or number of days for which the hiring shall be made, the name of the person letting to hire, if not an innkeeper, or the name of his or her sign or house if an innkeeper, the name of the place of his or her residence, and the month and year and day of the month when the hiring shall commence; and also in cases of hirings to go to any certain place or places and back, the name or description of such place or places, and the full number of miles thither and back; and also in cases of hirings for two or more days, the name and place of residence of the person hiring the horse or horses; and the exchange tickets shall have blanks to be filled up with the number of days for which the hiring shall be made, the name of the town or place where the original ticket shall have been issued, and the date thereof, and the name of the toll-gate and county where the exchange ticket shall be given; and also in cases of hirings to go to any certain place or places, and back, the name or description of such place or places, and the number of miles thither and back, as the same shall be expressed in the

original ticket, and also the name and residence of the hirer if 57 G. 3. c. 59. expressed in the original ticket for which the exchange ticket shall be given; and all such original and exchange tickets shall be filled up accordingly, and shall be delivered, shewn, and used by all persons concerned, in such and the like manner as by the said act of the twenty-fifth year of his majesty's reign is directed of and concerning the original and exchange tickets thereby required to be provided, delivered, shewn, and used in cases of or for denoting hirings for a day, and under and subject to the like penalties and forfeitures for every refusal, neglect, or omission as are thereby imposed.

certificates and

11. The said commissioners of stamps shall also supply all Commissioners persons who shall be licensed to let horses to hire in the manner of stamps to aforesaid with proper and convenient certificates, and the toll supply proper gate keepers with proper and convenient check tickets, for denot- check tickets, ing hirings for twenty-eight successive days or above not liable to be filled up to the before-mentioned duties, which certificates shall have and used for blanks to be filled up with the number of horses let to hire, the denoting hirings for twenty-eight number of days for which the same shall be hired, the name and days or above. residence of the person hiring, and of the person letting to hire, and the month and year and day of the month when the hiring shall commence; and the check tickets shall have blanks to be filled up with the same particulars as the certificates for which they shall be given in exchange, and with the name of the toll gate and county where the check tickets shall be given; and all such certificates and check tickets shall be filled up accordingly, and shall be delivered, shewn, and used by all persons concerned, in such and the like manner as by the said act of the 25 Geo. 3. is directed concerning the certificates and check tickets thereby required to be provided, delivered, shewn, and used in cases of or for denoting hirings for two or more days, and under and subject to the like penalties and forfeitures for every refusal, neglect, or omission as are thereby imposed.

When horses hired for any period of time

shall be given up before the

to them, is to

12. After the said 31st of January, 1818, where any person so licensed shall let to hire any horse, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings for drawing any carriage used in travelling as aforesaid, either for two or more days under twenty-eight, or for a period of twenty-eight successive days or above, and the horse, time expires, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings so let to hire, shall the exchange be given up and returned to the person letting the same before ticket or check the expiration of the time agreed for, the person so letting the ticket belonging same shall thereupon ask and receive of the person so returning be delivered up such horse, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings, the ex- to the farmer or change ticket or check ticket which he or she shall have received collector of the in exchange for the original ticket or certificate delivered to him duties. or her on the hiring of such horse, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings, and shall deliver up such exchange ticket or check ticket to the farmer or other collector of the aforesaid duties, to whom he or she shall be bound to deliver his or her stamp office weekly accounts at the next time of delivering any such account; and if any person so licensed as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to ask for such exchange ticket or check ticket, or having received the same shall refuse or neglect to deliver up the same to the said farmer or other collector at the time aforesaid, he or she shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of 107.; and

57 G. 3. c. 59. if he or she shall use such exchange ticket or check ticket, or permit the same to be used, or give out the same to any person for the purpose of being used to cover and protect any other hiring whatever from the duty payable by law for the same, he or she shall for every such offence forfeit 50l.

Penalty on persons falsely alleging hired horses to be their own, and not delivering proper tickets at toll-gates.

Carriages kept to be let with

horses hired by mile or stage are

to be numbered and the num

13. If the hirer of any horse, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings, shall not deliver or shew at any turnpike, toll bar, or bridge, the proper ticket, exchange ticket, certificate, or check ticket which he or she ought to do, pursuant to the directions of this act and the said acts of the 44 & 25 Geo. 3. or any of them, and shall falsely allege the horse, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings, with which he or she shall pass such turnpike, toll bar, or bridge, to be his or her own, or not hired, in order to avoid being stopped; or to avoid the payment of the sum which the toll gatherer there shall be entitled to demand in default of such ticket, exchange ticket, certificate, or check ticket, being delivered or shewn as aforesaid, every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit 201.

§ 14. After the said 31st of January, 1818, where any person who shall be licensed to let horses to hire, in pursuance of any of the said herein-before mentioned acts, shall keep any carriage used in travelling, to be furnished at the same time with any horse, mare, or gelding, horses, mares, or geldings, by him, her, or ber and owner's them let to hire, by the mile, or stage, (other than and except name, &c. to be hearses and mourning coaches used to attend funerals, which painted thereon. shall remain subject to the same regulations as heretofore,) he, she, or they shall, before any such carriage shall be so furnished, cause every carriage kept by him, her, or them, for the purpose aforesaid, to be numbered with a different number, beginning with number one, and proceeding upwards successively to the highest number of carriages which he, she, or they shall so keep; and shall also mark or paint, or cause to be marked or painted, in one or more straight line or lines on the outside pannel of each door of every such carriage which shall have a door thereto, and on some conspicuous part of each of the outsides of every such carriage which shall not have a door thereto, his, her, or their christian and surname, and the name of the city, town, or place where he, she, or they shall keep such carriages to be furnished as aforesaid; and the number of every such carriage, in large and legible characters and figures, of black or white, which ever shall most differ from the colour of the carriage whereon the same shall be marked or painted, each letter to be at least one inch in length, and each figure at least one inch and an half in length, and both letters and figures to be of a proper breadth in proportion to the length thereof respectively, and shall continue the same on every such carriage as long as such carriage shall be kept for the purpose aforesaid, varying the numbers on such carriages from time to time as occasion shall require, so as to make the same correspond with the actual number of such carriages which he, she, or they shall then keep; and if any person so licensed shall neglect to number, mark, or paint any such carriage in manner aforesaid, or shall mark or paint or cause to be marked or painted thereon any false or fictitious name or place, or any higher number than the greatest number of such carriages which he shall then keep, or shall keep two or more such carriages

Penalty for neglect.

with