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Penalty on Persons procuring Licences in a fictitious Name.
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XIII. If any Person, for the Purpose of procuring any Licence under any of the Provisions of this Act, shall use or employ any false or fictitious Name or Place of Abode, or other false or fictitious Description of any Person or supposed Person, or shall wilfully or knowingly insert or cause to be inserted in any Requisition for any such Licence, or in any such Licence, any false or fictitious Name or Place of Abode, or other false or fictitious Description of any Person or supposed Person, or shall wilfully or knowingly insert or cause to be inserted in any such Requisition or in any such Licence as aforesaid the Name of any Person as being a Proprietor or Part Proprietor of any Hackney Carriage, Job Carriage, Stage Carriage, Cart, or Job Horse, who shall not at the Time of the Application for such Licence be in fact such Proprietor or Part Proprietor thereof respectively, the Person so offending shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof he shall forfeit such Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings, or suffer an Imprisonment in the Common Gaol or House of Correction for such Term of Time not exceeding Two Months, and either with or without Hard Labour, as the Court shall think fit and adjudge; and the Licence shall be revoked.
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