HACKNEY COACHES.

1469

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the benefit of the several

Free Schools in the City and Precincts of Baltimore, passed December

session, eighteen hundred and fourteen, chapter one hundred and thirty-

,

one. —1838, ch. 407.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Funds

all funds arising under the provisions of the act, to which this

arising from
intestate

is a supplement, from the personal estate of any person who

estate.

may die intestate, in Baltimore county, out of the limits of the

city of Baltimore, the justices of the orphans court of Baltimore

county shall order and direct the same to be paid over to the

county commissioners, to be applied to the education of the poor

Payable to

children in said county, in the same manner that the other

school fund.

school funds of said county are applied by law, any thing in

the original act to which this is a supplement to the contrary

notwithstanding.

GAOL.

See 'Baltimore County.*

HACKNEY COACHES.

AN ACT to regulate the Charges for the use of Hackney Carriages in the

City of Baltimore.— 1836, ch. 285.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Hacks

That every carriage, coach, or other vehicle, moved by horses,

defined.

or other animal power, which shall be used for the conveyance

of persons within the city of Baltimore, for hire or compensa-

tion, shall be deemed a hackney carriage within the meaning of

this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every owner of a hackney

When li-

carriage, who shall have obtained a license therefor as required

censed, &C.

by the present or any future ordinances of the mayor and city

council of Baltimore, shall be authorized and entitled, during

the time in such license specified, to charge, ask and receive as

Fare.

a compensation from every person using the same, the rates of

fare and compensation, and hire, and no more, to be fixed and

determined by virtue of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the mayor of the city of

Corpora-

Baltimore, be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint three

tion to
appoint

persons residents of the city of Baltimore, commissioners, who

commis-
sioners to

or a majority of whom, shall fix and determine the rates of fare,

fix rates.

hire, or compensation, for the use of hackney carriages within

the city of Baltimore, for transportation of passengers and bag-

gage, and of either, adopting at discretion scales of time and

distance or of distance only; and such distance to be indicated

Tariff.

by fixed points or lines in the said city, and such rates when

determined as aforesaid, shall be certified under the hands and

seals of the said commissioners to the mayor of said city who

Certificate

shall file the same, and cause the said certificate to be recorded

thereof.