652 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

months nor less than thirty days, or both such fine and im-
prisonment ; and any passenger or passengers who shall refuse
to pay or attempt to avoid payment of the rates of fare or
charges so as aforesaid established by the Board of Police
Commissioners shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall,
upon conviction, forfeit and pay a fine of not exceeding fifty
dollars.

SEC. 285. No driver, chauffeur of or person having charge of
any hackney carriage, except omnibus, park phaeton or sight
seeing vehicle, shall take up or carry any passengers after the
carriage has been occupied, engaged or hired by any prior
passenger until such prior passenger shall have discharged
said carriage, without the consent of such prior passenger, and
such prior passenger shall not be obliged or asked to pay any
extra fare or fee for refusing such consent, and every person
having charge of a hackney carriage shall, immediately after
delivering any passenger, search said carriage for any property
which may have been left therein, and any property found
therein by any person having charge of any hackney carriage,
and not restored to the owner thereof within twenty-four hours,
shall be delivered by the finder thereof to the Board of Police
Commissioners, to be by them held and disposed of as required
by law in the case of lost and stolen property. Any person
violating the provision of this section shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not
exceeding ten dollars.

SEC. 286. The said Board of Police Commissioners are
authorized and empowered to set aside and designate certain
places in the City of Baltimore to be occupied and used as
public or private stands for hackney carriages, and to stipulate
the number of such carriage which may occupy or use each of
such stands, and to make regulations for the occupation and
use of such stands. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this Section or any regulation made by the said Board of
Police Commissioners under the authority in this Section con-
ferred shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic-
tion, forfeit and pay a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of
laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, otherwise
to remain in full force and effect.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTEE 92.

AN ACT to empower the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount not ex-