Section VII Rates of Hire.

Taking greater Rate; Penalty, 10s.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Hackney Coachman so licensed shall presume to take for his hire in or about the Cities of London and Westminster above the rate of ten shillings for a day reckoning twelve houres to the day and by the houre not above eighteen pence for the first houre and twelve pence for every houre after and that no Gentleman or other person shall pay from any of the Inns of Court or thereabouts to any part of St. James or City of Westminster (except beyond Tuttle-street above twelve pence and the same prices from the same places to the Inns of Court or places thereabouts and from any of the said Inns of Court or thereabouts to the Royall Exchange twelve pence and if to the Tower of London or to Bishopsgate street or Algate or thereabouts eightX1een pence and so from the same places to the said Inns of Court as aforesaid and the like rates from and to any place at the like distance with the places before menc[i]oned And if any Coachman shall refuse to go at or shall exact more for his hire then the severall Rates hereby limited he shall for every such offence forfeit the summ of ten shillings.