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CITY COUNCIL.

Chapter 176 amends section 20, as follows:

SEC. 1. The city council shall meet on the third Monday in
January in each year, but the mayor may summon them to con-
vene whenever and as often as it may appear to him that the
public good may require their deliberations; two-thirds of each
branch shall be a quorum to do business, but a smaller number
may adjourn from day to day.

Passed March 24, 1865.

CARRIAGES, CARTS, DRAYS, WAGONS, &c.

Chapter 90 repeals sections 140, 141,. 142, 143, and enacts the following in lieu thereof:

2. The Board of Police Commissioners of the city of Balti-
more shall determine and fix the rate of fare to be charged by
the owners of hackney carriages in said city, and every owner
of a hackney carriage, who shall have obtained a license there-
for, as required by the ordinances of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, shall be authorized and entitled, during
the time in such license specified, to ask, charge and receive as
a compensation from every person using the same, the rates of
fare and compensation, and hire prescribed by the said Board of
Police Commissioners, and no more; provided, that the provisions
of this section shall not apply to the owners of hackney carriages,
who conduct their business exclusively at their respective stables.

3. The owner of every licensed hackney carriage, other than
those excepted in the preceding section, before he shall be en-
titled to charge, ask or receive any hire or compensation for the
use thereof, shall cause the number of such carriage, 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, and shall also keep in at least two conspicuous positions
in the interior of such carriage a copy of the rates of fare or
charges prescribed by the Board of Police Commissioners, as