By the 1st Geo. I. c. 57, drivers of hackney coaches are to give way to
gentlemen’s carriages, under a penalty of 10_s._
If a carriage be obstructed by disorderly persons, the driver should
take out his pocket-book, and let the persons guilty of this see that
he is taking a note of their number; and he should then coolly tell
them that he will summon them if they do not immediately clear the way.
If a carriage be injured by another running against it, the driver
should ascertain whose carriage has done the mischief, and let his
coachmaker give an estimate of the charge for repairing it; but,
before he has it done, he should let the person who injured it see the
mischief, and pay the charge; or, as is the custom, let the repair be
made by the coachmaker of the party who committed the injury.
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