334 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

CARRIAGES, HORSES, BOATS AND SCOWS.

1880, ch. 69

132. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have
power to license and regulate all carriages and other vehicles

owned and used for the purpose of business or pleasure, and also
all hackney coaches, carriages, carts, drays, omnibusses, wagons
and other vehicles, kept for hire or hired in said city; and also
to license and regulate the employment of all hackmen, draymen,
wagoners, carters, porters and watermen, plying for hire within
the limits of said city, and to pass all necessary and proper regu-
lations respecting the same; provided, however, that all the
revenue arising from said licenses shall be applied to the paving

or repaving of the public highways of the city.
Vansant v. Harlem Stage Co , 59 Md. 330.

P. L. L., (1860,) art 4, sec. 189.

133. Every carriage, coach, or other vehicle moved by horses

or other animal power, which shall be used for the conveyance of
persons within the city of Baltimore for hire or compensation,
shall be deemed a hackney carriage.

Ibid. sec. 668.

134. The mayor and city council may regulate the breadth of
the wheels of wagons, carts and drays, to be used for hauling
burdens on the streets of said city, but such regulations shall not
affect persons hauling produce to the said city.

1865, ch. 90.

135. 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 therefor 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 compensa-
tion 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.