ART. 4.] CARRIAGES, HORSES, BOATS AND SCOWS. 335

1865, ch. 90

136. The owner of every licensed hackney carriage, 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 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
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.

P. L L (1860,) art 4, sec. 144.

137. Every owner of a hackney carriage licensed as aforesaid,
for the use of which any higher or greater rate of fare shall be
asked and received by any driver or other person having care of
such carriage, than that prescribed by this sub-title of this
article, or who shall omit or neglect to comply with the directions
herein contained, shall incur a penalty of ten dollars ; every con-
tinuance of an omission to comply with the provisions herein
contained for one day after any prosecution therefor, to be taken
as a distinct offence.

Ibid. sec. 145.

138. Every driver of any licensed hackney carriage who shall
ask and receive any greater hire, or other compensation in money
or other valuable articles, for the use of such carriage, or the con-
veyance of any person or baggage therein than is prescribed in
this sub-title of this article, or who shall refuse or omit when
required, to inform any person using such carriage or applying
for the use of it, the true number thereof, or the correct
amount of the rates of fare authorized to be charged for the use
of it, or who shall wilfully mislead, or misconvey, or insult, by
abusive or indecent and approbrious language, any passenger
whom he shall have in his care for conveyance in the carri-