diet and small beer to which he is entitled, such victualler or other person may be fined as if he had refused to furnish or allow the same. Innkeepers, &c. are entitled to receive payment for such diet, beer, and forage, from the officer receiving the pay or subsistence of the regiment, &c. every four days, or before the troops quit their quarters, before any part of the pay or subsistence of such troops is distributed to them. And on default of such payment, on complaint to the next quarter-sessions, the Secretary-at-War will direct the same to be paid by the agent of the regiment, &c. And if the officer is not enabled to pay the same, on account of the troop or company being suddenly ordered to march, on the innkeeper's obtaining a certificate from such officer of the allowance of his account, and transmitting the same to the agent of the regiment, he will obtain payment. 26. Post-Horse Duties and Regulations. As innkeepers and publicans are frequently engaged in letting out post-horses and carriages, it is necessary, in order to render this work complete and practically useful to those for whose use it is intended, to state, in a succinct and plain manner, the laws relative to letting out and hiring post-horses and carriages. The law which regulates this important branch of the Public Line, is the Statute 4 Geo. IV. c. 62. For facility of reference, and the clear comprehension of the subject, I shall subdivide the information I design giving, into the following heads: 1. The License; 2. The Method of Calculating the Duty; 3. Regulations respecting Post-Chaises, &c.; 4. Regulations respecting Tickets; and, 5. Stamp-Office Weekly Account. 1. The License, No person shall lend out any horse, mare, or gelding, to be used as a posthorse, without having previously obtained a license for that purpose, and giving bond to the King for 501. on condition to re-deliver, when required, every Stampoffice ticket which he receives, and remains unaccounted for by him, or to pay the value of such tickets, and to deliver to the persons authorized by the Commissioners to receive the same, the weekly account delivered to him, faithfully made out and signed, and to pay all money due to the King under the Act, and truly and faithfully to observe all directions and things required of him by this Act. And such bond shall be renewed every three years, from the time of its being first granted, on penalty of forfeiting the sum of 101. for every horse, mare, or gelding which he shall so let out to hire, without having previously obtained such license, and given such bond. The annual duty for a license to let horses, mares, or geldings for hire, is And for every horse, mare, or gelding, let for hire (at the usual rate charged for horses travelling post, at the place at which such horse, &c. is let), for every mile for which it is hired or used £0:5:0 0:0:13 If let for no greater distance than eight miles, one-fifth of the hire, or for each horse, mare, or gelding £0:1:9 And where it is so let, if it does not bring back any person, or deviate return But if let for hire, or used for any period less than twenty-eight days, or in any other manner than by the mile, or to go no greater distance than eight miles, one-fifth of the sum charged, or for each day, not exceeding three 0:1:0 0:2:6 .... 0:1:9 For each day exceeding three, and less than twenty-eight But if let for hire, or used for twentyeight successive days, or any longer period, where it shall be returned in a less period than twenty-eight days, and not exchanged with any other in continuation of the same hiring, one-fifth of the hire, or for every such horse, mare, or gelding, for each day, not exceeding three For each day exceeding three, and not exceeding thirteen 0:1:3 0:2:6 0:1:9 And to these duties, every horse, mare, or gelding, is chargeable for every day it shall have been under the direction of the person hiring the same, by virtue of such hiring. And when any horse, &c. is retained beyond the expiration of the time for which it was let or hired, without a new hiring, it shall, in respect of the duty, be deemed to be retained on a hiring or hirings similar to that for which it was originally let. And these duties are payable in respect of every horse, mare, or gelding, let for hire, or used either as a saddle-horse, or for drawing any carriage or vehicle conveying any person, or drawing any mourning-coach, or hearse; except for drawing any carriage or vehicle conveying passengers for hire, at separate and distinct fares, as a licensed stage or carriage, when such stage or carriage is licensed to go no greater distance from London or Westminster than ten miles; or in drawing any mourning-coach or hearse, when used not to go a greater distance |