HC Deb 01 August 1890 vol 347 c1530
MR. COX (Clare, E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any control over the fares which may be charged by Tramway Companies having a monopoly of running their cars on the Queen's highway?

MR. MATTHEWS

I have no control of any kind over the fares of stage carriages.

MR. COX

Can these companies make any charge they like?

MR. MATTHEWS

They can make any charge they are authorised to make by Act of Parliament.

MR. COX

How can it be ascertained what charges they are entitled to make?

MR. MATTHEWS

By referring to the Acts.

MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)

I beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether there is in the right hon. Gentleman's Department, or in any other Department of the Executive, authority to require proprietors of tramcars and omnibuses to exhibit outside the vehicles in legible figures and letters every fare chargeable?

MR. MATTHEWS

No such authority exists in 6 & 7 Vict., c. 86, which is the controlling Act.