Section III Commissioners to license all Stage Coaches for a Year.

£8 Rent for each Licence; Licences may be granted or devised, or go to Executors, &c; Assignment entered in the Commissioners Book; Access without Fee; Executors, &c; how to claim.

And be it further enacted That the said Comissioners soe appointed shall have power and authority and are hereby impowered and required under theire. Hands and Seales or the Hands and Seales of the major part of them to lycense all Stage-Coaches which shall be kept or driven in any place or places within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed; And that noe Lycense to be granted for any Stage-Coach shall continue or be in force longer then for one yeare from the date thereof that upon every Lycense soe to be granted for keepeing or driveing a Stage-Coach there be reserved payable to theire Majesties theire Heires and Successors the rent or annuall su[m]me of eight pounds of lawfull English money for one yeare the same to be paid quarterly att the said Four most usuall Feasts in the yeare with such Covenants Provisoes and Condic[i]ons for the more effectuall payment thereof as the said Co[m]missioners in theire discrec[i]on shall thinke fitt and reasonable; that every person lycensed as aforesaid to keepe or drive any Hackney-Coache or Stage-Coach may by writeing under his Hand and Seale assigne or by his last Will in writeing devise his her or theire respective Interests therein and in defaulte of such Assignement or Devise the Executors or Administrators of the persons to whome such Lycences are granted shall be intituled thereto dureing the residue of the respective Interest therein and the same shall be accounted Assetts in theire Hands that an Entry shall be made of every such Assignement in some Booke or Bookes to be kepte by the said Co[m]missioners for that purpose which Entry shall be made without Fee or Reward to which Booke or Bookes every person concerned shall have free accesse to inspecte the same att all seasonable times without Fee or Reward; And that every Legatee Executor or Administrator claimeing Title to any such Lycense under any Will or Letters of Administrac[i]on shall within Sixty dayes after the decease of such Testator or Intestate produce before the said Co[m]missioners such Probate or Letters of Administrac[i]on or Exemplificac[i]on thereof:-