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London Hackney Carriage Act 1831
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London Hackney Carriage Act 1831
1831 CHAPTER 22
An Act to amend the Laws relating to Hackney Carriages, and to Waggons, Carts, and Drays, used in the Metropolis; and to place the Collection of the Duties on Hackney Carriages and on Hawkers and Pedlars in England under the Commissioners of Stamps.
[22d September 1831]
WHEREAS it is expedient to reduce into One Act, and to alter and amend, the Provisions of several Acts now in force, passed in the Parliaments of Great Britain and the United Kingdom respectively, relating to Hackney Carriages within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof, and also the several Parishes and Places comprised within the Weekly Bills of Mortality ; and it is also expedient to place the Collection of the Duty upon or in respect of such Hackney Carriages under the Care and Management of the Commissioners of Stamps : And whereas it is expedient to repeal the Laws relating to the registering and numbering of Waggons, Carts, and Drays used in the Metropolis, and to make other Regulations in lieu thereof:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
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