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to or from any place in x[the States] shall, without regard to the
form or construction of such carriage, be deemed to be a stage-carriage
within the meaning of this Act : 3* * * * * *

2. No carriage shall be used as a stage-carriage unless licensed Carriages to
by a Magistrate or by the 4* Commissioner of Police of a Pre- oenfl€ "
sidency-town.

3. The Magistrate or 4* Commissioner of Police to whom the Power to
application for a license of stage-carriage is made may refuse to
license the same if he shall be of opinion that such stage-carriage

is unserviceable or is unsafe or unfit for public accommodation or
use.

If a Magistrate or Ue Commissioner of Police a* aforesaid shall
grant a license, the license shall set forth the number thereof, the
name and residence of the proprietor of the stage-carriage, the place
at which his head office is held, the largest number of passengers
and the greatest weight of luggage to be carried in or on such
carriage, the number of horses by which such carriage is to be
drawn, and the name of the place at which such carriage is
licensed.

4. 5[For every such license there shall be paid by the proprietor Charge xw
of the stage-carriage the sum of five rupees or such less sum as the^on cST"
6 [State Government] may fix, and such license shall be in force for license,
one year from the date thereof.]

When a licensed stage-carriage is transferred to a new proprietor
within the year, the name of such new proprietor shall, on applica-
tion to that effect, be substituted in the license for the name of the
former proprietor without any further payment for that year ; and
every person who appears by the license to be the proprietor shall
be deemed to be such proprietor for all the purposes of this Act.

5. On any stage-carriage being licensed the proprietor thereof Partwriaw

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shall cause the number of the license and all the other particulars on

of the license to be distinctly painted in the English language and ous P«* Q*
character upon a conspicuous part of such stage-carriage. carnage.

6. The proprietor of any licensed stage-carriage who shall let Penalty for
such stage-carriage for hire without the particulars specified in^ri*Se
section 3 being painted on such carriage in the manner directed in without
the last preceding section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one particulars
hundred rupees. painted.

1 Subs, by the A. O. 1950 for " the Provinces " which had been subs, by the
A. O. 1948 for " British India ".

a Proviso to s, 1 which read : " Provided that this Act shall not apply to
carriages not ordinarily used for journeys of a greater distance than twenty
miles " rep, by the Stage-Carriages Act (1861) Amendment Act, 1898 (1 of 1898),
s. 2.

* For definition of " Magistrate ", see s. 21, infra.

4 The word "Chief " was rep, by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914
(10 of 1914), s. 3 and Sch. II.

* Subs, by the Stage-Carriages Act (1861) Amendment Act, 1898 (1 of
1898), s. 3, for the original paragraph,

1 See footnote 4 on p. 371 supra.

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