24 CITY OP BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

aforesaid, 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 day time by any person
who may be a passenger in said carriage.

This act adds the following sections to bo arranged after section 143:

4. The proprietor of any hackney carriage in the city of Bal-
timore who does not intend to go upon or use the public stands
in said city, with such hackney carriages, shall at the time of
applying for a license for the same as required by the present,
or any future ordinances of the mayor and city council of Bal-
timore, signifying in writing such intentions, and thereupon a
special license may and shall be granted to such proprietors, by
the Comptroller, or other proper officer of said city; and for
every special license thus granted, there shall be paid such sum
as is now or shall hereafter become payable for other hackney
carriages by the present or future ordinances of said city.

6. No hackney carriages which shall be thus specially licensed
shall make use of or go upon, or stand or wait for employment
at any of the public stands designated by or under the present
or any future ordinances of the mayor and city council of Bal-
timore, or at any other place or places in said city, except the
premises of the owner thereof, under a penalty of twenty dol-
lars for every such offence, one half to be paid to the informer,
to be recovered against either the owner or driver thereof, as
fines of a like amount are now recovered.

6. 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 used by him, and such owner whenever he
shall have increased 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 one of the
provisions of this section shall forfeit his license, and be liable
to a penalty of ten dollars.