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IV. Whenever any of the Particulars entered or endorsed upon any Licence in force, under the Provisions of this Act or the before-recited Act, shall be obliterated or defaced, so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, and also whenever any such Licence shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners to have been lost or mislaid, the Person to whom such Licence shall have been granted shall (if he shall have the same in his Possession or Power) deliver up such Licence, and shall make and sign a Requisition for a Supplementary Licence as herein provided, and then and in such Case it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, or their authorized Officer as aforesaid, to grant to such Person a Supplementary Licence in lieu of the Licence so obliterated, defaced, lost, or mislaid, on Payment of the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence for and in respect of such Supplementary Licence where the same shall be required by the Proprietor of any licensed Carriage, Cart, or Job Horse, and on Payment of the Sum of One Shilling where such Supplementary Licence shall be required by the Conductor of any licensed Stage Carriage, or the Driver of any licensed Carriage whatsoever, and in like Manner a Supplementary Licence shall be taken out from Time to Time as often as any of the several Cases aforesaid shall occur: Provided always, that whenever any such Supplementary Licence shall be granted in lieu of any pre-existing Licence, such pre-existing Licence shall thenceforth cease and determine, and such Supplementary Licence shall be deemed to be the only Licence in force, and it shall not be necessary upon any Occasion to prove that such pre-existing Licence had been previously taken out, nor shall the Circumstances under which such Supplementary Licence was issued be required to be proved, nor the Regularity of the issuing thereof in any Manner questioned: Provided also, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to refuse to grant any such Supplementary Licence if it shall appear to the said Commissioners that the Particulars entered or endorsed on any Licence so to be delivered up as aforesaid shall have been wilfully obliterated or rendered illegible by any other Means than by regular and proper Use and Wear thereof.
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