Section IV Driving Coach without Licence;

Penalty £5; Coach Horses to be Fourteen Hands high; Coaches to be figured; altering Figure, &c; Penalty £5; Ancient Coachmen, &c. to be first licensed.

And be it further enacted That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety four noe person or persons shall p[re]sume to drive or lett to hire by the Hour or Day or otherwise any Hackney-Coach or Coach-Horses within the Cityes of London or Westminster or Suburbs of the same or within the Parishes or Places comprised within the Bills of Mortality nor shall p[re]sume to drive or lett to hire as aforesaid any Stage-Coach or Coach-Horses in any place within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed without such Leave or Lycense first obteined from the said Co[m]missioners as aforesaid according to the particular Provisions and Limittac[i]ons of this Act upon paine to forfeite for every such Offence the su[m]me of Five pounds; And that noe Horse Gelding or Mare to be used with any Hackney or Stage Coaches shall be under the Size of Fourteene Hands high according to the Standard: And that every Coach soe lycensed shall have a Marke of distinc[i]on by Figure or otherwise as the said Co[m]missioners shall thinke fitt And the said Marke shall be placed on each side of every such Coach in the most convenient X1place to be taken Notice of to the end they may be knowne if any Complainte shall be made of them and that noe person shall be lycensed to keepe more then Two Hackney-Coaches which Coaches shall have every one of them severall Figures or Markes of distinc[i]on in the same manner as if they did belong to severall persons; And that noe person shall putt the same Figure or Marke of distinc[i]on upon his Coach that is appointed for any other Coach nor shall blott out obliterate alter or deface the Figure or Marke of distinc[i]on appointed by the said Co[m]missioners for his Coach under the Forfeiture of Five pounds for every such Offence one moiety whereof shall be to the Informer and the other moiety to the use of theire Majesties; And the said Co[m]missioners for lycensing and regulateing of Coaches are hereby required in the first place to lycense all such persons as have beene ancient Coach-men who have formerly had Lycenses by Act of Parliament or the Widdowe or Widdowes of any of them unlesse they shall neglect or refuse to take such Lycences upon the respective Termes hereby allowed within a reasonable time to be limitted by the said Co[m]missioners not lesse then Twenty dayes:-