Section XVII Recital of 29 Car. II. c. 7. 175 Coaches may drive upon the Lord's Day.

And whereas by one Act of Parliament made in the Nine and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of King Charles the Second entituled An Act for the better observac[i]on of the Lords Day co[m]monly called Sunday; the standing to hire and driveing of Hackney-Coaches on the Lords day are restrained; And whereas the said restrainte is many times found to be inconvenient aswell in order to the observac[i]on of the day as otherwise Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Co[m]missioners to appointe (without any fee or reward for the same) One hundred seaventy five and noe more of the said Hackney-Coaches to ply stand and drive on the Lords Day within the weekely bills of Mortality only; so as the wholl number of Seaven hundred may be imployed successively:-