384 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ers, as aforesaid, printed on 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 daytime by any person
who may be a passenger in said carriage. 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-division of this Article, or
who shall omit or neglect to comply with the directions herein
contained, shall incur a penalty of ten dollars; every continu-
ance of an omission to comply with the provisions herein con-
tained for one day after any prosecution therefor, to be taken
as a distinct offence.

283. Every driver of any licensed hackney carriage 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 corrent 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 opprobrious
language, any passenger whom he shall have in his care for
conveyance in the carriage of which he is driver, shall for every
such offence incur such penalty, not exceeding twenty dollars,
as shall be adjudged by the Mayor of the said City or any Jus-
tice of Peace therein, before whom complaint shall be made by
or on behalf of the party injured.

284. No driver or person in charge of cabs or hackney
carriages shall ask, charge, demand or receive more than the
rates of fare as established by the Board of Police Commis-
sioners in the City of Baltimore from time to time, from any
passenger or passengers; and any person violating the provis-
ions of this section shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine
not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment in jail for a period
not exceeding six months nor less than thirty days, or both, in
the discretion of the court.

285. The proprietors of any hackney carriage in the City of
Baltimore who do not intend to go upon or use the public
stands in said City with such hackney carriages, shall at the time