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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 325, 9 May 1877, Page 3

2. Any person taking any dog, cat, or other animal to ary place of public ment licensed under the Licensed Theatres Qrdinance shall be liable to a penalty for eTery offence in any sum not exceeding L 5. BY-LAWS No. X. ...'......- REGULATIONS FOR LICENSED VEHICLES. Made under authority of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1876, part XII., Sec. 349, Sub-section 16. 1. No carriage shall stand or ply for hire within the Town of Oamaru unless and until the same shall be licensed by the Council. Provided that if any licensed carriage shall be undergoing repair or otherwise unfit for use the owner thereof may permit, to stand : or ply for hire in lien thereof any other carriage which he shall have been permitted by the Town Clerk or the Inspector of Licensed Vehicles so to use, but for such time only as he shall be so permitted, and subjact in all respects as if licensed to the provisions of this bye-law. 2. For each license for any carriage there shall be paid to the Town Clerk the sum of (LI) one pound annually. Every license shall be available only until the 30th day of September after the date of its issue. 3. No carriage license shall include more than one carriage. 4. No licensed carriage shall be driven by any person not holding a 'driver's license from the Council, and for each driver's license there shall be paid to the Collector of the Corporation the sum of 2s. 6d. 5. The Collector of the Corporation may refuse to grant a license to any person who. may be reported to him by the Inspector of Licensed Vehicles as an incompetent or unsuitable person, or to any person under the age of 15 years, or to any person who may be known to him as an habitual drunkard. 6. The Corporation may at any time when it shall appear to be desirable in the public interest so to do annul or suspend any driving license granted by the Collector of the said Corporation. 7. Every licensed carriage may be used for the purpose for which it is licensed at any time and during any hours, day. or night. 8. Every licensed carriage, when standing or plying for hire, shall each evening at and after sunset, carry and sufficiently display two (2) lighted lamps, one on each side. 9. Before permitting to stand or ply for hire any carnage, the owner thereof shall cause to be printed or painted on a card or plate six inches by three inches in clear legible figures * ne number of the license of such carriage and the number of the passengers which such carriage is licensed to carry, and shall affix the same in the side of such carriage in such conspicuous place as shall be approved by the proper officer of the Council appointed for the inspection of carriages, together with the table of fares for the time 1-ieinof set forth by the Council, and shall keep such c rd or plate an 1 table of fares so affixed and undefaced leaiblennd conspicuous during all such times as the carriage shall stand or ply for hire. *lO. The Council shall as often as theymav Vem necessary cause an insr>f>otion t«» be •na'le of all carriages and of the harness and horses used in drawing the same, and no owner, driver, or conductor of any such cnr-. Wage or any other person shall obstruct such inspection. And if at any time any carriage, horse, or harness shall appear to the Council to be insufficient or unfit for public use, the Council may cause notice in writing to be served on the owner of such carriage, harness, or horse, either personally or by de* livery at his registered place of abode, after which service such owner shall not permit to «tnnd or T'ly for hire such carriage, until the same, or the horses or harness used in drawing the same, shall be s-ufficient and fit for j Tiublic use. 11. The Council may suspend for any period which to them shall seem proper any license held by any owner offending Against I the preceding section, or by any driver knowingly driving any carriage which, or the horse or harness used in drawing which, shall at the time of his so driving the same be insufficient or unfit for public use. 12. The number of passengers to be carried in any carriage shall be stated in each case in the license for the same, provided that not less than sixteen inches in width be allowed on the seat to each passenger, and in case of any carriage having seats facing each other not less than eighteen inches between seat and seat.

13. Infants in arms shall not be counted as passengers ; two children under seven years of age shall be counted as one passenger. 14. No driver shall allow any vicious horse attached to any carriage to be or remain unmuzzled, nor knowingly drive any unbroken horse in any licensed vehicle. 15. The driver of any carriage shall remain constantly in attendance upon the same either by himseif or by some competent person while hired or plying for or returning from hire or waiting on any public stand. 16. No driver of any carriage shall by loitering or any other improper conduct cause any obstruction in any street, nor shall he permit the same to stand alongside of any other carriage in taking up or setting down any person or wilfully or wrongfully prevent or endeavour to prevent the driver of any other carriage from being hired or taking a fare, nor shall he while acting as such driver or conductor do or cause or suffer to be done any damage to any person or property or be guilty of any breach of the peace or of any misconduct or misbehaviour tending to occasion a breach of the peace. 17. No owner, driver, or conductor in charge of or in attendance upon any carriage shall drive the same furiously, carelessly, or wantonly while the same shall be in actual use, or be drunk or useany obscene or blasphemous language, or any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or gestures, or otherwise so misbehave himself as to annoy any person riding therein. 18 Until and subject to amendment or alteration as the Council may at any time hereafter from time to time see fit, the fares chargeable for the conveyance of passengers in licensed carriages shall be as set forth in the schedule hereto, it being at the option of the hirer whether to hire by time or by distance, provided that such fares shall be inclusive of all charges for luggage not exceeding 281bs. in weight for each passenger. Provided further that nothing in this bye-law shall extend to affect the validity of any special agreement made with any person by the owner or diiver of any licensed carriage for any future hring or at any time when such carriage shall not be upon any public stand or plying for hire. 19.. Charges by distance for licensed carriages shall te computed from the stand or place from which the carriage was hired.