in any of the cases aforesaid, shall refuse to discover his name, the justice may commit him to the house of correction for any time not exceeding three months, or may proceed against him for the penalty by a description of his person and the offence, and expressing in the proceedings that he refused to discover his name. 13 Geo. 3. c. 78. s. 60. and place of 1820. And for the better discovering of offenders, The owner's name the owner of every waggon, wain, or cart, and also abode to be put of every coach, post-chaise, or other carriage let to on carriages. hire, shall cause to be painted, upon some conspicuous part of his waggon, wain, or cart, and upon the pannels of the doors of all such coaches, post-chaises, or other carriages, before the same shall be used in any public highway, his christian and surname and place of abode, in large legible letters; and continue the same thereupon so long as such carriage shall be used upon any highway: and the owner of every common stage, waggon, or cart employed in travelling stages from town to town, shall, over and above his christian and surname, cause to be painted on the part and in the manner aforesaid, the following words, common stage, waggon, or cart, as the case may be. And every person using any such carriage as aforesaid upon any highway, without the said names and descriptions respectively, or who shall cause to be painted thereon any fictitious name or place of abode, shall forfeit not exceeding 57. nor less than 20s. Ibid. s. 59. be near bridges. 1821. And for preventing obstructions near public Alehouses not to bridges, if any person, collecting any tolls payable for passing over any public bridge with carriages or cattle of any kind, shall keep any victualling-house, alehouse, or other place of public entertainment, or shall sell or permit to be sold therein any wine, beer, ale, cider, spirituous liquors, or other strong liquors, by retail, he shall, on conviction before one justice by confession or oath of one witness, forfeit 51. Ibid. s. 62. Direction posts. Horse and foot causeways. Direction Posts, Blocks, Milestones, Water Marks, and Battlements of Bridges. 1822. The justices, at a special sessions held for the purposes of this act, shall issue their precept to the surveyor for any parish, &c. where several highways meet, and there is no proper or sufficient direction post or stone already fixed or erected, requiring him forthwith to cause to be erected or fixed in the most convenient place where such ways meet, a stone or post, with inscriptions thereon, in large legible letters painted on each side thereof, containing the name or names of the next market town or towns, or other considerable place or places to which the said highways lead; and also at the several approaches or entrances to such parts of any highways as are subject to deep or dangerous floods, graduated stones or posts, denoting the depth of water in the deepest part of the same; and likewise such direction posts or stones as the said justices shall judge to be necessary for the guiding of travellers in the best and safest tract through the said floods or waters; and if he shall refuse or neglect, by the space of three months, to cause such stones or posts to be fixed, he shall forfeit 20s. 13 Geo. 3. c. 78. s. 26. 1823. And whereas in some places it may be necessary to secure horse and foot causeways by posts, blocks, or great stones fixed in the ground, or by banks of earth cast up or otherwise, from being broken up and spoiled with waggons, wains, carts, or carriages; and forasmuch as divers evil-disposed persons do wilfully or wantonly pull up, cut down, and remove or damage the said posts, blocks, and great stones, and drive carriages upon such banks and causeways, or against the sides thereof, and also dig or cast down the said banks, whereby the causeways or banks are often ruined and destroyed; and such evil-disposed persons do or may break, damage, or throw down the stones, bricks, or wood fixed pets, battlements milestones. upon the parapets or battlements of bridges; and Destroying parapull down, destroy, obliterate or deface any mile- of bridges, or stone, or post graduated, or direction post, or stone erected upon any highway; for prevention thereof it is enacted, that every person who shall be guilty of any such offence shall, upon conviction before one justice, by the oath of one witness, or upon view of the justice, forfeit not exceeding 57. nor less than 10s.; and in default of payment shall be committed to the house of correction, there to be whipped and kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month, nor less than seven days, at the discretion of the justice. Ibid. s. 52. Breadth of Wheels, and Number of Horses. and number of 1824. No waggon having the sole or bottom of Breadth of wheels the fellies of the wheels of the breadth of nine inches, horses. shall be drawn with more than eight horses; and no cart, having the sole or bottom of the fellies of the wheels of the breadth of nine inches, shall be drawn with more than five horses. 13 Geo. 3. c. 78. S. 55. seven horses. 1825. And no waggon, having the sole or bottom Waggon drawn by of the fellies of the wheels of the breadth of six inches, and rolling on each side a surface of nine inches, shall be drawn with more than seven horses. Ibid. horses. 1826. And no waggon, rolling a surface of six The like by four inches only, shall be drawn with more than six horses; and no cart, having the sole or bottom of the fellies of the wheels of the breadth of six inches, shall be drawn with more than four horses. Ibid. horses. 1827. And no waggon, having the sole or bottom The like by three of the fellies of the wheels of less breadth than six inches, shall be drawn with more than five horses; and no cart having the sole or bottom of the fellies of less breadth than six inches, shall be drawn with more than three horses. Ibid. Penalty. Carriages on wheels of sixteen inches breadth. Prosecutions to be commenced 1828. On pain that the owner shall forfeit 5l., and the driver (not being the owner) 10s., for every horse or beast above the number respectively, to the sole use of the informer. Ibid. 1829. But carriages moving upon wheels or rollers of the breadth of sixteen inches on each side thereof, with flat surfaces, shall be allowed to be drawn with any number of horses or other cattle. Ibid. 1830. No prosecution shall be commenced before within three days. a justice against such owner or driver, unless the information be laid within three days; and no action shall be commenced unless within one calendar month after the offence committed; and neither information nor action shall be brought, unless notice be given by the informer to the driver on the day whereon the offence shall be committed, of an intention to complain of such offence: And if it shall appear to the justice before whom the complaint shall be made, that the offender lives so remote as to make it inconvenient to summon him to appear before such justice, the said justice may dismiss the complaint, and leave the informer to his remedy by action at law. Ibid. s. 56. Justices may of the number of horses. 1831. The justices at the Michaelmas quarter license an increase sessions may license, in such manner and for such time as they shall think fit, an increase in the number of horses to be drawn in carriages up any steep hill, or on any road not turnpike, over and above the number herein before limited; and from time to time, at any Michaelmas quarter sessions, may revoke, alter, or vary the same as they shall think fit. Ibid. s. 57. Exception as to snow and ice; 1832. And if it shall appear upon the oaths of credible witnesses, to the satisfaction of any justice of the peace, or of any court of justice authorised to enforce the execution of this act, that any waggon, cart, or carriage, could not, by reason of deep snow or ice, be drawn by the number of horses or beasts of draught hereby allowed, they may stop the proceedings before them for recovery of the forfeiture. Ibid. s. 58, &c. 1833. Provided also, that nothing herein, con- and large stones, cerning the number of horses and wheels of carriages, shall extend to carts, waggons, or other carriages employed only in carrying any one stone, block of marble, cable, rope, or piece of metal, or piece of timber, or to such ammunition or artillery as shall be for his majesty's service. Ibid. one horse. 1834. And for all the purposes of this act, two Two oxen, &c. as oxen or horned cattle shall be considered as one horse. Ibid. London and miles thereof. 1835. No person in London and Westminster, or Regulations in within ten miles thereof, shall carry at any one load, Westminster, in waggons or carts having their wheels shod with or within ten iron, more than twelve sacks of meal of five bushels each, nor more than twelve quarters of malt, nor more than 700 of bricks, nor more than one chaldron of coals; on pain of forfeiting any one of the horses, with the geers, bridles, and halters therewith used, in such manner, and to such uses, as by the 5 Geo. 1. c. 12 (now repealed). 6 Geo. 1. c. 6. within the bills 1836. The wheels of every cart, car, or dray, As to the wheels within the bills of mortality, shall be sia inches of carts, &c. broad in the felly, and not wrought about with iron, of mortality. nor be drawn with above the number of three horses, after they are up the hills from the water-side; on pain of 40s., by warrant of one justice, by distress; and for want of distress, on non-payment, in six days after demand, to be committed till paid: but this not to extend to any country cart or waggon that shall bring any goods, or shall carry any goods half a mile beyond the paved streets of the said cities and places. 18 Geo. 2. c. 88. s. 38. inches broad. 1837. Also any person, within the said limits, Using cart, &c. using any cart, car, or dray, having the wheels full with wheels six six inches broad, when worn, may have the same bound round with tire of iron, provided it be six * Repealed as to meal, malt, and coals, by 11 Geo. 3. c. 51. G G |