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of applying for a license for the same, as required by the present
or any future ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, signify in writing such intention, 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.

286. No hackney carriages which shall be thus especially
licensed shall make use of or go upon or stand or wait for em-
ployment at any of the public stands designated by or under the
present or any future ordinances of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, or at any place in said City, except the premises
of the owner thereof, under a penalty of twenty dollars for every
such offence; one-half to be paid to the informer, to be recov-
ered against either the owner or driver thereof, as fines of a like
amount are now recovered.

287. 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 increase the number of such hackney carriages, shall re-
port such increase to the Comptroller or other proper officer of
said City; and every person violating any of the provisions of
this section shall forfeit his license, and be liable to a penalty of
ten dollars.

288. All penalties which shall be incurred under section
283 of this sub-division of this Article, or for the breach of any
of its provisions, may be recovered by warrant issued in the
name of the State, in the same manner as debts within said
City are recoverable, with the right of appeal to the Baltimore
City Court.

289. On the trial of such appeal, the party of whom the
penalty is claimed shall be entitled to a jury trial; but there shall
be no stay of execution of any judgment appealed from, unless
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