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BALTIMORE CITY.

in the office of the register of said city, and shall cause the

Publication

same to be published daily for at least four weeks in all the

directed.

daily newspapers of said city, and if the said mayor shall for

the space of sixty days after the passage of this act, fail to ap-

point commissioners as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the

Case of

governor and council and they are hereby required to appoint

neglect, the

said commissioners, and in case any of the commissioners ap-

executive
shall

pointed by virtue of this act, shall decline to act, or die or

appoint

resign, it shall be lawful for the mayor or governor and council,

Case of
vacancy.

as the case may be, who shall have made the appointment, to

appoint any commissioner or commissioners to fill the vacancy

so occasioned, and the commissioners before they act, shall each

Oath re-

take an oath or make affirmation faithfully to discharge the trust

quired.

reposed in them by the appointment, a certificate of which oath

or affirmation shall be annexed to the said certificate of rates,

and if the mayor shall be entitled to fill said vacancy, and shall

fail within twenty days after it shall occur to fill the same, the

same shall be filled by the governor and council.

Numbering.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

owner of every licensed hackney carriage, before he shall be

entitled to charge, ask, or receive any hire or compensation for

the use of such carriage, to cause the number thereof as stated

in his license, in plain and easily legible figures, at least two

inches in length, to be painted or otherwise delineated in con-

spicuous places on each side of such carriage both within and

without, either in black or yellow on a white ground, or in

white or yellow on a black ground, and the same to keep and

have at all times so conspicuously delineated therein and

thereon ; and also to place and keep in at least two conspicuous

positions in the interior of such carriage, a copy of the rates of

fare or charges authorized by this act, printed on a white paper

card with black ink, by types of a size not less than long pri-

mer, so that the same may be conveniently seen and read in the

day time by any person capable of reading, who may be a pas-

senger in such carriage.

Case of

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That every owner of a hackney

overcharge.

carriage licensed in pursuance of this act, for the use of which

any higher or greater rate of fare shall be asked and received by

any driver or other person having care of such carriage than

Or neglect.

what is allowed by this act, or who shall neglect or omit to per-

form any duty, or to comply with any provision required by this

Penalty.

act, shall incur a penalty of ten dollars, every continuance of an

omission to comply with the provisions of the fourth section of

this act for one day, beyond any act of violation of said provi-

sion prosecuted, being taken as a distinct offence, and every

Omitting

driver of any licensed hackney carriage, who shall ask and

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receive any greater hire or other compensation, in money or