FUNCTIONS:
I. To manage that branch of the Police which relates to Hackney Coaches and Chairs.—To enforce strictly the laws now in being for the better ordering this system so necessary to the comfort and convenience of the Metropolis.—To obtain new powers (where wanting) to compel a greater degree of cleanliness and security, with respect to these vehicles.—To banish, if possible, from the fraternity those criminal characters denominated Flash Coachmen, and to secure civility, and prevent imposition.—For this last purpose a department should be continued, as at present, (a part of the Institution,) having a concurrent jurisdiction with other Magistrates, for the purpose of hearing and determining disputes between Coachmen and the Public.
II. To execute the laws relative to Hawkers and Pedlars.—To regulate and improve the System respecting this suspicious class of Dealers, and more effectually to extend the control over them by means of the Select Magistrates in each District of the Country where they travel, for the purpose of more narrowly watching their conduct.
III. To grant Licenses in the Town District (i.e. within the limits of the Penny-Post, while the Select and other Justices grant similar Licences in the Country;) under the authority of the proposed general Police Bill, to the following Traders, and others,[173] viz.
1st. Purchasers of second-hand, and other Household goods, for Sale.
2d. Wholesale purchasers of Rags, and unserviceable Cordage, for Sale to Paper-makers.
3d. Retail Purchasers of Rags, and unserviceable Cordage, for Sale to Paper-makers.
4th. Purchasers of second-hand Apparel, made-up Piece-Goods, and Remnants for Sale.
5th. Walking or Itinerant Purchasers of second-hand Apparel, made-up Piece-goods, and Remnants for Sale.