ESTIMATE No. VII.
HIRING FOR A SHORTER PERIOD THAN A YEAR.
If a Carriage be hired for a Day, a Week, or a Month, or for any time less than a Year, the person who let it out pays the Duty.
The customary charge for those common Carriages, whether of Two or Four Wheels, which are let out, is about 5s.per Day, or £5. per Month (28 Days).
Open Carriagesare charged higher, as the whole Year’s Duty is paid upon them, though they are only used for a few Months.
When Coaches or Chariots are let by the Day or Week, theHarnessis not included in the charge for them. Harness for a Pair of Horses is charged 1s.per Day, or 5s.per Week.
Hired Carriages are expected to be turned out clean, greased, and fit for immediate use:—examine them well before you take them; forif any part breaks while in your use, you will be expected to pay for the Repair thereof, unless you make a previous Agreement that it shall be done by the person letting it.
Tell the person you hire of, how long you want the Carriage, and how far you are going to travel:—he has then no excuse for not giving you a sufficient Carriage.
The price of a Job during the dear Months, when the Town is full,i. e.in April, May, and June, for a Chariot or Coach, a Pair of Horses and Coachman, his Wages and Board Wages, the standing at the Hackneyman’s, &c., and all charges included, is, (a little more or less, according to the quality of the Horses and the Carriage), per Month, (reckoning 28 Days), about £26.
The usual sum forthe Hire of a Coach or Chariot and Harness, is, according to the condition thereof, from £5. to £7. per Month:—if you hire them of a Coachmaker, you will have more choice, and may get a better Carriage.
A Glass Coach, or Chariot and Horses, not to travel beyond eight miles from Town, may be hired, per Day, for from £1. 1s.to £1. 5s.
The Coachman’s Fee is 5s.
If he is employed all Day, especially if you go into the Country, it is usual to give the Driver his Dinner.
For a distance exceeding eight miles from the place of letting, the charge is 1s.6d.per Mile out, and half that sum in returning.
For Three or Four Hours in the middle of the Day, 18s.
The Coachman will expect about Half-a-Crown.
From Four till Twelve in the Evening, to take you out to Dinner, and to bring you Home, 15s.—Coachman, 2s.6d.
In either of the above cases,if you find the Carriage, the charge will be from 3s.to 5s.less.
We subjoin a List of the charges for these things in Ireland.
MEETING OF THE COACH PROPRIETORS AND POST-MASTERS OF DUBLIN.
The Job Coach Proprietors and Post-Masters respectfully beg leave to inform the Nobility, Gentry, their Friends, and the Public, that at a Meeting of their Trade, held on Tuesday, the 25th of July, 1826, it was
Resolved—That in order to meet the exigency of the Times, the change of Currency, and the advanced price of every article necessary for their Trade, particularly forage, that from and after the 1st of August next, the prices of Posting and Job Carriages will be as follow, in British Currency.
POSTING.
JOB CARRIAGES.
Resolved—That the sum of Ten Pence,demanded by Messengers sent to us for Carriages, be discontinued.
Resolved—That we will not hire or employ any Coachman who has not a written recommendation from his last employer to produce.
Resolved—That the foregoing List of Prices, together with the Resolutions, be published inThe Dublin Evening Mail, &c.