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such prior passenger shall not be obliged or asked to pay any extra fare
or fee for refusing such consent, and every person having charge of a hack-
ney carriage shall, immediately after delivering any passenger, search said
carriage for any property which may have been left therein, and any prop-
erty found therein by any person having charge of any hackney carriage,
and not restored to the owner thereof within twenty-four hours, shall be
delivered by the finder thereof to the Police Commissioner, to be by him
held and disposed of as required by law in the case of lost and stolen prop-
erty. Any person violating the provision of this section shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not ex-
ceeding ten dollars.

1865, ch. 90. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 140. 1910, ch. 109.

286. The said Police Commissioner is authorized and empowered to set
aside and designate certain places in the City of Baltimore to be occupied
and used as public or private stands for hackney carriages, and to stipulate
the number of such carriages which may occupy or use each of such stands,
and to make regulations for the occupation and use of such stands. Any
person violating any of the provisions of this section or any regulation
made by the said Police Commissioner under the authority in this section
conferred shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, for-
feit and pay a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars.
Swann v. Baltimore, 132 Md. 256.

1805, ch. 90. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 141.

287. Each and every proprietor of hackney carriages shall, at the time
when he applies for a special license, or any renewal thereof, furnish the
Comptroller or other proper officer of the City of Baltimore with a correct
statement of the number of hackney carriages iised by him; and such
owner, whenever he shall increase the number of such hackney carriages,
shall report such increase to the Comptroller or other proper officer of said
city; and every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall
forfeit his license, and be liable to a penalty of ten dollars.

288 and 289. Repealed by Act of 1910, Chapter 109.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 148. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 144.

290. All penalties which shall be recovered for the breach of any of the
provisions of this sub-division of this Article, shall be appropriated one-
half to the use of the dispensaries in the City of Baltimore, to be equally
divided between them, and the other half to the use of the informer, whose
name shall be endorsed on the warrant issued for the recovery of each re-
spective penalty.

HORSES, ETC., LIVERY STABLE CHARGES.

1865, ch. 163. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4. sec. 145.

291. It shall be lawful for any livery stable keeper to retain in his
custody any horse, mare or gelding placed under his care for livery, and