By the 10 & 11 WilL III., c. 24, mackerel are permitted to be sold before and after divine service on Sundays, and forty watermen aro allowed to ply between Vauxhall and Limehouse. The 21 Geo. HI, e. 49, enacts that no house, &c., shall open for any public entertainment or amusement, or for publicly debating on any subject on Sundays.
The 7 & 8 Geo. III., e. 75, repeals that part of 29 Chas. IL which relates to travelling by water. By 34 Geo. III., c. 61, bakers are enabled, between nine and one o'clock on Sundays, to bake fur persons things which aro brought to their oven. By 1 & 2 Will. 1V., c. 22, drivers of hackney-carriages may ply, and are compellable to drive on Sundays. The 3 Will. IV., c. 19, empowers the court of aldermen, or two justices, to regulate the route of stage-carriages, cattle, &c., on Sundays. These two statutes relate to London only. The 3 & 4 Will. IV., c. 31, provides that the election of corporate officers, &c., required to be held on any particular day, shall take plate on Saturdays or Mondays, when the day specified in the Act happens to be a Sunday.
Under these enactments the colitis have determined that a contract or sale which, though made on Sunday, is not In ,the exercise of the ordinary calling of the parties, is valid. Thus a contract of hiring between a farmer and a labourer, and a bill of exchange drawn on a Sunday, have been held to be good. The owner of a stage-eoach is not included within the provisions of any of the statutes on the subject; the words "other person whatever," in 29 Chas. II., being restricted in application to persons of the same classes as those enumerated by name. An action, therefore, may be maintained against him for neglecting to take a passenger. Only one offence can be committed by the same party against the provisions of 29 Chas. II., c. 7, by exercising his ordinary calling on a Sunday. Several statutes regulate the hours within which public-houses and other places of refreshment may be kept open on Sunday, the regulation thus made being enforceable by penalties summarily recoverable before magistrates.