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II. The Commissioners of Police of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, or their Officer authorized in that Behalf, shall and may grant Licences, upon the Terms and Conditions and in the Manner and Form herein-after mentioned, to keep, ply, use, or let to Hire any Stage Carriage, Job Carriage, Hackney Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Job Horse, within the Limits of the said Act, and every such Licence shall take effect from the Date thereof, and shall continue in force so long as the annual Duty payable thereupon under the Provisions of this Act, to be computed from the First Day of January of each Year, shall be paid in manner as herein directed, or until the same shall be voluntarily surrendered by the Party named therein, or otherwise be determined or revoked, under the Provisions of the said Act or of this Act; and every such Payment of Duty shall be made at the Office provided for the Purpose by the said Commissioners, in One annual Payment, at a Time or within a Period to be specified in such Licence as and for such Payment; and such Payment of the said annual Duty in respect of the Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Horse described in the said Licence shall be certified by the Officer duly authorized for that Purpose, whose Certificate thereof shall be received as sufficient Evidence of the Existence or Continuance in force of said Licence: Provided always, that in regard of any such Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Job Horse it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, if they shall think proper, to refuse to grant any such Licence, or to revoke or suspend for such Time as they shall think proper any such Licence which may have been theretofore granted, and to recal and take away the Dublin Plate belonging thereto, in case it shall appear to the said Commissioners, upon Inspection or otherwise, that the Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Job Horse in respect of which such Licence shall be applied for or granted, or any Horse or Harness used with any such Carriage, Cabriolet, or Cart, is unserviceable or unsafe, or otherwise unfit for public Accommodation or Use, or that the Person applying for or in possession of any Licence is an unfit Person to hold the same, by reason of his having been convicted of any. Theft or Felony, or of his having been convicted of any Assault, or of Drunkenness, or of any Breach of the Provisions of the said Act or of this Act, or of the Rules, Orders, or Byelaws made in pursuance thereof; but in all such Cases of Refusal or Revocation the said Commissioners shall endorse upon or annex in Writing to such Licence, or the Requisition therefor, the Grounds for such Refusal or Revocation: Provided also, that a Licence shall not on any account be granted to any Person under the Age of Eighteen Years, otherwise than jointly with some Person of full Age who shall be appointed to act as Trustee, Executor, Guardian, or Administrator of the Will or Personal Estate of a Proprietor dying while licensed, and in any such Case the Trustee, Executor, Guardian, or Administrator named in the Licence shall, during the Minority of any Person or Persons named in such Licence with him, be accountable in all respects as if Proprietor of such Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Horse: Provided also, that there shall be obtained a separate and distinct Licence for using or letting to Hire every Hackney Carriage, Job Carriage, Stage Carriage, Cabriolet, Job Horse, and Cart; but no Licence so obtained shall authorize the Use of any such Carriage, Cabriolet, or Cart in any Manner contrary to the Import of the Licence appertaining to such Carriage, Cabriolet, or Cart, within the Meaning of this Act: Provided also, that in every Case in which a Licence is to be obtained the proper Duty in respect of the Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Horse to be described therein shall be first paid as herein required, and shall be paid in every Year thenceforward while in force, according to the General Regulations which the said Commissioners shall require to be observed, and which they are by this Act empowered to make for the Purpose, and to prescribe in each Licence.
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