# Streets, London and Westminster Act 1662, Section VIII: ; Rent to be paid by Coachmen.


Payable Quarterly.; To whom Rent to be paid.; Commissioners for Hackney Coaches to certify to Commissioners for Paving Names and Dwelling of licensed Coachmen, and Figures affixed to their Coaches.; Overplus of Paving Rates how employed.
And be it further Enacted That every Coach so licensed as aforesaid shall pay to the Co[m]missioners that shall be appointed for the regulating and licensing of Hackney Coaches the yearely Rent of five pounds and no more whereof fifty shillings shall be paid at or before the twenty sixth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two and the su[m]m of five and twenty shillings att or upon the feast day of St. Michael the Archangell next coming and Twenty five shillings att the Feast of the Nativitie of our Lord Christ and from thenceforward to bee paid quarterly at the foure most usuall Feasts of the yeare by equall porc[i]ons (that is to say) at the Annunciac[i]on of the Blessed Virgin, St. John the Baptist, St. Michael the Archangell and the Nativitie of our Lord Christ which said Su[m]m and su[m]ms of money the said Commissioners for the Hackney Coaches shall from time to time pay or cause to be paid to the Commissioners appointed for the paving and amending of the Streets and High wayes within the Bill contained or to such Treasurer or Receiver as they shall appoint And the said Commissioners for Hackney Coaches shall likewise from time to time certifie to the Commissioners appointed for the paving of the Streets and High wayes the names and dwellings of all such persons as they shall license to drive or keepe Hackney Coaches togeather with the severall figures or markes of distinction which are appointed to belong and be affixed to the severall Coaches to the intent that discovery may the better be made of any abuses that shall be committed if any shall presume to affix the figure or marke of distinction to any Coach which belong of right to another and whereby the Co[m]missioners for the paving and amending the Streets and High wayes shall be enabled to call the said Comissioners for the Hackney Coaches to a true and due accompt And in any case any overplus shall be of the moneys appointed by this Act to be raised for the paving and mending the Wayes and Streets as aforesaid then such overplus shall be imployed towards the enlargment of such Streets or Places as are to be enlarged by vertue of this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/2/section/VIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-VIII
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