|
|
Limitation as to Number of Licences to be granted.
|
VI. The Number of Licences (subject, however, to the Conditions herein-after mentioned and expressed respecting such Licences,) so as aforesaid to be granted by the said Commissioners or their authorized Officer to Proprietors of Hackney Carriages which shall be in force at any One and the same Time shall not at any Time exceed the Number of Licences in force on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four: Provided, nevertheless, that when and so often as any Person, duly qualified to be licensed as a Proprietor of a Hackney Carriage, shall consent to pay to the Officer duly appointed to issue Licences under the said Act, for and in respect of a Licence for a Hackney Carriage, a Premium of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners or their authorized Officer, then, but not otherwise, to grant to such Person a Licence to keep, ply, use, or let to Hire within the Limits of the said Act a Hackney Carriage, such Licence to be subject in all respects thereafter to the Provisions of the said Act and of this Act.
|
