ABSTRACT
BY an Act of Parliament made in the Fourteenth Year of Our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second, it is appointed, That no person or persons after May 1. 1662. shall presume to drive, ( except Stage-Coaches,) or let to Hire by the hour or day, or rotherwife, any Hackney-Coach or Coacl?-Horfes within the Parishes comprised within the Bills of Mortality, without an especial License from the Commis-poners appointed by His Majesty for Licensing and regulating Hackney-Coaches. That no Horse, Gelding, or Mare, to be used with such Coaches, be under 14 hands high, according to the Standard. . That the Number of poaches to be Licensed shall not exceed 400. That every Coach so Licensed shall have a Mark of distinction by Figure, or otherwise, as the Commissioners shall think fit, to the end they may be known, if any complaint shall be made of them. That no person mall be licensed to keep more than two Coaches,which Coaches shall have several Figures or Marks of distinction, as if belonging to several persons. That no person shall put that Figure or Mark upon his Ceach which is appointed for any other, under the sorfeiture of five pounds. That no person shall he Licensed to drive or keep a Hackney-
