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required by law shall be authorized and entitled to ask, charge
and receive as a compensation from every person using the
same the rates of fare and compensation prescribed and estab-
lished by the said Board of Police Commissioners, and no
more. Every vehicle, whether drawn by horses or other animal
power, or propelled by mechanical motor, except a street car,
used or to be used for the conveyance of persons for hire from
place to place within the City of Baltimore, shall be deemed
to be a hackney carriage within the meaning of this subdi-
vision of this Article.

SEC. 282. Every hackney carriage, drawn by horse or other
animal power, licensed as required by law, shall be provided
with a lamp on each side, and said lamps shall be kept lighted
when such vehicle is in use in the night time, and the number
of the owner's license of not less than two inches in length
shall be placed on each side of such carriage both within and
without, in such a position as to be distinctly seen and read,
and the owner, driver or person having charge of a hackney
carriage, whether drawn by horse or other animal power or
propelled by mechanical motor, shall keep in a conspicuous
place in the interior of such carriage at all times the rates of
fare and the charges prescribed and furnished by the said
Board of Police Commissioners. Any owner, driver, chauffeur
or person having in charge any hackney carriage as aforesaid,
who shall omit, neglect or refuse to comply with the directions
herein contained shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine
of ten dollars.

SEC. 283. Every driver, chauffeur of or person having in
charge any hackney, carriage; licensed as required by law,
whether drawn by horse or other animal power or propelled by
mechanical motor, 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 rate
of fare or charge authorized to be asked for the use of it, or
shall wilfully mislead, misconvey or insult by abusive or inde-
cent and opprobrious language any passenger whom he shall
have in his care for conveyance in the carriage of which he is
driver, chauffeur or person having charge thereof, shall, upon
conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 284. Any driver, chauffeur of or person having in charge
any hackney carriage who shall ask, charge, demand or
receive more than the rates of fare or charges as established by
the Board of Police Commissioners in the City of Baltimore
from time to time from any passenger or passengers shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dol-
lars, or imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding six