[Rates for] The TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT. [Hackney-Coaches.]312

[Rates for] The TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT. [Hackney-Coaches.]

For every Standing for Bakers and Ginger-bread Sellers, not above 4 foot long, and 3 foot broad, 6d. per Week.

For the finding Beams, Scales and Weights for the Accommodation and just Satisfaction of Buyers and Sellers of Provisions, usually bought and sold by Weight, no Overseer, Collector, or Receiver, shall or may demand or receive more than one farthing for every Draught, or 4d. per Week.

And because the Hackney-Coaches have a relation to the Streets of London, I add here an Act of Parliament for Hackney-Coaches and Chairs, and what Rates were set and appointed for keeping good Order with them, and preventing all imposing upon the Subject, making use of them.

Hackney-Coaches and Chairs.


The RATES for Hackney-Coaches and Chairs. By the Commissioners authorized and appointed for Licensing and Regulating Hackney-Coaches and Chairs.

 

AN Act of Parliament passed, entituled, An Act for Licensing and Regulating Hackney-Coaches and Chairs, &c. provided, That no Hackney-Coachman shall presume to take for his Hire, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, or within ten Miles thereof, above the Rates of ten Shillings for a Day, reckoning twelve Hours to the Day, and by the Hour not above eighteen Pence for the first Hour, and twelve Pence for every Hour after: And that no Gentleman, or other Person, shall pay from any of the Inns of Court, or thereabouts, to any Part of St. James's, or City of Westminster, (except beyond Tuttle-street) above twelve Pence; and the same Prices from the same Places to the Inns of Court, or Places thereabouts; and from any of the said Inns of Court, or thereabouts, to the Royal Exchange twelve Pence. And if to the Tower of London, or Bishopsgate-street, or Aldgate, or thereabouts, one Shilling and six Pence: and so from the said Places to the said Inns of Court, as aforesaid; and the like Rates from and to any Places at the like Distance with the Places before-mentioned.

Rates for them.

AND WHEREAS by the said Act it is also provided, That no Gentleman, or other Person, shall be obliged to pay above twelve Pence for the Use of an Hackney-Coach for any Distance (not particularly set down in the said Act) so as the same do not exceed one Mile and four Furlongs; and that no Gentleman, or other Person, shall be obliged to pay above one Shilling and six Pence for the Use of an Hackney-Coach, for any Distance (not particularly set down in the said Act) being above one Mile and four Furlongs, and not exceeding two Miles.

The said Commissioners (pursuant to the Directions of the said Act) have caused to be admeasured, and do hereby publish, the several Distances between the most noted Places within the Limits of the Weekly Bills (not particularly set down in the said Act) according to which the said Rates of twelve Pence, and one Shilling and six Pence respectively, ought to be paid and regulated as aforesaid, viz.

One Shilling RATES for Hackney-Coaches.

From Westminster-Hall to Marlborough-street.
Westminster-Hall to Albelmarl-street.
Westminster-Hall to Bolton street.
Westminster-Hall to Soho-Square.
Westminster-Hall to Bloomsbury-Square.
Westminster-Hall to Little Queen-street, Holborn.
St. James's Gate to Queen-Anne-Square, Westminster.
St. James's Gate to the nearest Corner of Red-Lyon-Square.
Golden-Square to Red-Lyon-Square.
Hay-Market Playhouse to Red-Lyon-Square.
Hay-Market Playhouse to Queen-Anne-Square, Westminster.
Hay-Market Playhouse to Davids-Inn.
Hay-Market Playhouse to Bloomsbury-Square.
Red-Lyon Square to Guild-Hall.
Upper End of Fetter-lane, Holborn, to Aldgate.
Royal Exchange to Hoxton-Square.
Newgate to the middle of Greek-street near Soho-Square.
The King's Head Tavern in Southwark to the Sign of Sir William Walworth.
Gray's-Inn Gate to Sadlers-Wells by Islington.
Tom's Coffee-house in Russel-street by Covent-Garden to Newcastle House by Clerkenwel Church.
Temple-Bar to Billinsgate.
Aldgate to Shadwel Church.

One Shilling and six Pence RATES for Hackney-Coaches.

From Drury-lane Playhouse to Queen-Anne Square, Westminster.
Westminster-Hall to St. Paul's Church.
Westminster-Hall to Queens-Square, Red-Lyon-Fields.
St. James's Gate to Hatton Garden.
New Exchange in the Strand to the Royal Exchange.
Hay-Market Playhouse to Hatton Garden.
Red-Lyon-Square to Westminster-Hall.
St. James's to Marybon Church.
The Royal Exchange to Bloomsbury-Square.
The Royal Exchange to the Watch-house at Mile-End.
The Outside of Aldgate to Stepney Church.
Bedford-street, Covent Garden, to Coleman-street.
Bread-street to Upper Moorfields, and thence to Hoxton-Square.
Austin Friers Gate in Broad street to Hart-street by Bloomsbury Market.
St. Martins-lane in the Strand to Gold-street by Wood-street.
The End of Lombard-street next Grace-church-street to Somerset House.
St. Laurence's Church by Guild-Hall to Brownlow-street in Drury-lane.
The Royal Exchange to the Church at Newington beyond Southwark.
Tom's Cofee-house by Covent Garden to the Royal Exchange.
Stocks-Market to Charing-Cross.
Aldgate to Ratcliff-Cross.

AND whereas in and by the said Act it is further enacted, That no Person whatsoever shall be obliged to pay to the Chairmen for an Hackney-Chair, carried any Distance within the Limits aforesaid, more than the two third parts of the Rate allowed by the said Act to Hackney-Coaches, viz. not exceeding one Mile four Furlongs for a Shilling Fare for the said Coaches; and for any Distance above one Mile and four Furlongs, and not exceeding two Miles, for one Shilling and six Pence Fare for the said Coaches;

The Fare of a Hackney-Chair is a Shilling for any Distance not exceeding a Mile, and one Shilling and six Pence for any Distance not exceeding a Mile and four Furlongs.

The Fare for a Chair.

The said Commissioners (pursuant to the Directions of the said Act) have caused to be admeasured, and do hereby publish, the several Rates allowable by the said Act to Chairmen, as aforesaid, for their Carriage to and from the most noted Places where such Chairs are commonly used in the City and Limits aforesaid, viz.

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