886 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

Baltimore city, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
per annum, in monthly instalments, of one hundred
and twenty-five dollars at the end of each and every
month, as, and for their respective salaries, on the
certificate of the clerks of said courts, that said criers
have performed their several duties as criers of said
courts for the time so certified by said clerks.

In force from March 2,1864.

CARRIAGES, CARTS, DRAYS, WAGONS, &o.

1865, c. 90 repeals sections 140, 14], 142 and 143 and enacts the following in
lieu thereof:

1865, 0 90 Police commis- sioners to fix rates of fare.	140. The board of police commissioners of the city of Baltimore 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 carnage, who shall have obtained a license therefor, as re- quired by the ordinances of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall be authorized and enti- . tied, 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 com- pensation, and hire prescribed by the said board of
Proviso	police commissioners, and no more; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the owners of hackney carriages, who conduct their busi- ness exclusively at their respective stables.
Number to be placed on car- riages.	141. The owner of every licensed hackney car- riage, other than those excepted in the preceding section, before he shall be entitled 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 de- lineated in conspicuous places on each side of such
Rates of fare to be placed in- side. ,	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