reason of intoxication, negligence, or other misconduct, the driver or guard. endanger his passengers in their lives, or property, or the property of others entrusted to them, or shall loiter on the road, or wilfully mispend or lose time, or shall use abusive or insulting language to any passengers, or shall demand or exact more than the fare due from any passenger; in every such case the driver or guard (as the Penalty. case may be) on conviction, shall forfeit and pay the sum of £5 for every such offence over the money embezzled, and shall make compensation for all damage and loss occasioned by their misconduct, and in case of nonpayment, every offender shall be committed to gaol, for any time not exceeding two months, nor less than fifteen days.

SEC. 7.-That in case the driver shall, (at any place Driver quitting where assistance can be procured,) quit his horses, or the his horses. box of the coach, until a proper person or persons shall stand at the head of the horses, so as to prevent them from running away, such persons to stand at their head until the driver has returned to his box, and if such driver shall neglect to attend to the same, he or they being duly convicted, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of £5, and in case of non-payment, shall be committed for Penalty. any term not more than one month, nor less than fifteen days.

deemed good.

SEC. 8.-That the summons issued to compel the ap- Service of sumpearance of any driver or guard, may be left with the mons, what book-keeper or person having the care of the office, and it shall be deemed good service upon such driver or guard.

cute warrant

SEC. 9.-That if any constable or peace-officer shall Constable nerefuse or neglect to execute any warrant granted under glecting to exethis act, he shall, on conviction, forfeit for each offence under this act. the sum of forty shillings, and in default of payment, it Penalty. shall be lawful for the justice or justices to commit him

Power to mitigate penalties.

Application thereof.

Jurisdiction.

to gaol for any time not exceeding one month, unless the penalty be sooner paid.

SEC. 10. That justices may mitigate penalties, but not to a less sum than one-half over all reasonable charges incurred in the prosecution, one moiety to be given to the informer, the other to the clergyman of the parish for the use of the poor.

SEC. 11. That all offences against this act may be cognizable and determined by and before one or more justice or justices, or before any mayor, bailiff, or other chief officer of any county, city, town, or place, where the offence may be committed, or the offender is actually present, upon the oath of one or more credible witnesses, or upon voluntary confession; and the penalty and costs are to be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of such justice, or the party to be committed as herein before stated.

49 GEO. III. CH. 84.

Act for amending the Irish Road Acts.

IT IS ENACTED,

[10th June, 1809.

Rule of the road.

SEC. 30.-That on public and other roads, and in the streets of towns, all drivers of any species of vehicle, or waggon, all persons riding on horseback, and all persons driving animals either with or without burdens, shall be obliged to keep the left hand side of the road, and all drivers of carriages or animals, and travellers of every description who shall have occasion to pass by the dri vers of other carriages, or animals, or travellers going in the same direction, shall in all cases where it is practicable, go on the right hand side of the driver, or tra

veller, whom they shall have occasion to pass: any
person wilfully neglecting to do so may be stopped and
detained by any magistrate, constable, conservator, or
turnpike-keeper, as well as the carriage and horse or
horses, or other beast, on or with which such offender
shall be, and such offender shall be forthwith taken
before any justice of the peace for the county or county
of a city or town where the offence shall have been com-
mitted, or it shall be lawful for any person to lodge an
information against such offender, and upon conviction
upon the oath of one credible witness, he shall forfeit
any sum not exceeding 10s. to be levied by distress and Penalty.
sale of the offender's goods, or by distress and sale of the
carriage, horse or horses, or beast, and the goods, then
carried, the distress to be by warrant under the hand
and seal of such justice, and the overplus (if any) after
deducting expenses of sale, to be paid to the owner on
demand; one-half of the penalty to the informer, one-
half to the minister or curate for the poor of the parish;
and in default of such distress, the offender to be com-
mitted for any time not exceeding one calendar month,
or until the fine be paid; and the offender shall be liable
to pay all damages which may happen in consequence
of his neglect.

4 & 5 WILL. IV. CH. 50.

Act to amend an Act passed in the 49th Year of the Reign Chap. 84. of King George III. for amending the Irish Road Acts.

[13th August, 1834.

WHEREAS by the laws now in force in Ireland, when Cattle straying on a public road swine or other beasts are found wandering on any public or street. road, or about the streets or passages of any town, they may be seized, impounded, and sold for the purpose of

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Penalty.

enforcing a penalty; and whereas it may be expedient that a power should exist of inflicting penalties for such nuisances without resorting to seizure of the animals; Be it enacted, that in case any horse, ass, pig, cow, or other beast, shall be found wandering on any public road, or about any street, or passage of a town, it shall be lawful for a constable, or any other person, to procure the owner to be summoned before a justice of the peace; and in case the constable or other person should not know the owner, it shall be lawful for them to seize and drive the beast so trespassing, to the nearest pound, there to remain till the owner appear and demand his property, notice of which is to be given by the pound-keeper to the person impounding; and such justice is required summarily to hear and determine such complaint on the appearance of the party summoned, or in their absence, on proof of service of summons either personally. or by leaving it at the usual place of abode, and on proof of such offence by the oath of a credible witness, or the confession of the party charged, the offender to be fined in a penalty not exceeding one shilling without costs, to be levied by distress and sale under warrant, rendering the overplus (if any) to the owner. Provided that nothing herein shall be construed to repeal any act now in force for the prevention of trespass, or for the infliction of a penalty or recovery of damages in cases of trespass, or forfeiture of any animal found trespassing, or damage feasant.

57 GEO. III. CH. 108.

Act for the Regulation of levying Tolls at Fairs, Markets, and Ports in Ireland.

IT IS ENACTED,

[11th July, 1817.

shall erect toll

boards.

SEC. 1.-(Reciting that certain customs, tolls, and duties, unwarranted by law, have been at sundry times levied in Ireland,) That all persons collecting or claim- Toll collector ing customs, tolls, or duties, at any fair, market, or port, shall erect and keep up, during the continuance of such fair and market, in some conspicuous place at each principal entrance, and at the principal quay or landing place of the port, a painted board having thereon a schedule in large and legible characters, specifying distinctly the tolls claimed on each article, and the names of the person collecting, and of the person or corporation claiming right to the same, for the purpose of reference.

SEC. 2. That every person attempting to levy toll without having previously erected such boards, or having kept them up, shall, for every custom, toll, or duty which he shall attempt to collect, either in money or kind, not being specified on such board, or at a time when such boards shall not be up, forfeit for each such offence the sum of 40s. to any person suing for the same.

SEC. 3. That where the boards are taken down by violence, the collector shall not be liable except he neglect to reinstate the board within a reasonable time.

Penalty.

ing toll boards.

SEC. 4. That any person who shall deface or remove Penalty on desuch boards, or be engaged in a riot in which they shall facing or removbe so defaced or removed, shall forfeit £5 to any person suing for the same.