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Penalty on Drivers of Hackney Carriages refusing to hire, or exacting more than legal Fare.
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XXXIX. If the Driver of any Hackney Carriage shall, on Tender of the legal and proper Fare, refuse to go with any Person desirous of hiring such Carriage to any Place within the Limits of this Act, or to any Place within Ten Statute Miles of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin, or shall, when conveying any Person for Hire, occupy more than Ten Minutes in performing the Distance of any One Mile, except by the express Desire of such Person, or in case of Accident or Obstruction, or if the Driver of any Hackney Carriage shall exact or demand for the Hire thereof more than the legal and proper Fare, the Person so offending in any Case shall forfeit for such Offence a Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings.
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