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ance of twenty-five cents for the carriage only when sent from
the stand. 2. Children over ten years, half price; no charge
under that age. 3. Stopping ten minutes, or leaving the carriage,
to make a new charge. 4. All cases not provided for in this
article are left to the agreement of the parties.

143. The owner of any licensed hackney carriage, before he
shall be entitled to charge, ask, or receive any hire or compen-
sation for the use thereof, shall cause the number of such car-
riage as stated in his license, in plain and easily legible figures
at least two inches in length, to be painted or otherwise deli-
neated in conspicuous 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 shall also keep, in
at least two conspicuous positions in the interior of such car-
riage, a copy of the rates of fare or charges prescribed in this
article, printed on a white paper card with black ink, by types
of a size not less than long primer, so that the same may be
conveniently seen and read in the daytime by any person who
may be a passenger in said carriage.

144. Every owner of a hackney carriage licensed as aforesaid,
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 what is prescribed by this article, or who
shall omit or neglect to comply with the directions of the last
preceding section, shall incur a penalty of ten dollars; every
continuance of an omission to comply with the provisions of the
said last preceding section for one day after any prosecution
therefor being taken as a distinct offence.

145. Every driver of any licensed hackney carriage who shall
ask and receive any greater hire, or other compensation in
money or other valuable articles, for the use of such carriage,
or the conveyance of any persons or baggage therein, than is
prescribed in this article, or who shall refuse, or omit when re-
quired to inform any person using such carriage or applying for
the use of it, of the true number thereof, or the correct amount
of the rates of fare authorized to be charged for the use of it,
or who shall wilfully mislead, or misconvey, or insult, by abusive
or indecent and opprobrious language, any passenger whom he
shall have or shall have had in his care for conveyance in the
carriage of which he is the driver, shall for every such offence
incur such penalty, not exceeding twenty dollars, as shall be