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Persons refusing to pay for any Carriage or Cart, &c., or for Damage, may be committed.
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XLVII. If any Person shall refuse or omit to pay the Proprietor or Driver of any Hackney Carriage, Stage Carriage, Job Carriage, Cart, or Job Horse the Sum justly due for the Hire of such Carriage, Cart, or Horse, or if any Person, either by himself or by the Negligence or Misconduct of any Person in his Employment, shall break, deface, or in any Manner injure any such Carriage or Cart, or the Harness thereof, or shall injure any Horse used with any such Carriage or Cart, or shall injure any Job Horse, in either Case the Person so offending shall, on Conviction before a Justice, forfeit such Sum as to the said Justice shall seem reasonable for any and every such Offence; and it shall be lawful for any Constable of Police, upon a Charge of any such Offence, to apprehend and hold to Bail to appear before a Justice the Person so charged; and upon Proof upon Oath before such Justice of the Nonpayment of the proper Fare, or of any Injury or Loss so suffered through the Negligence or Misconduct of such Person, the said Justice shall adjudge the Sum to be paid, and shall award reasonable Satisfaction to the Party so complaining or injured for his Fare or for the Damage suffered, with Compensation for his Loss of Time in attending to make and establish such Complaint; and if the Sum awarded shall not be thereupon paid, or if the Offender shall not also pay at the same Time the Sum which shall be awarded as Satisfaction to the Owner or Driver, it shall be lawful for such Justice to commit the said Offender to Prison, there to remain for any Time not exceeding Two Calendar Months, unless the Amount of the said Fine and Satisfaction shall be sooner paid; and it shall also be lawful for such Justice, if he shall think fit, to order such Offender to be kept to Hard Labour during such Imprisonment.
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