142

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

same is hereby repealed, and the following sections
enacted in lieu thereof:

Rates of fare
to be fixed.

140. The Board of Police Commissioners of the
city of Baltimore shall determine and fix the rate
of fare to be charged by the owners of hackney-car-
riages in said city, and every owner of a hackney
carriage, who shall have obtained a license there-
for, as required by tb e ordinances of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, shall be authorized and
entitled, during the time in such license specified,
to ask, charge and receive as a compensation from
every person using the same, the rates of fare and
compensation, and hire prescribed by the said
Board of Police Commissioners, and no more;

Proviso.

provided, that the provisions of this section shall
not apply to the owners of hackney carriages, who
conduct their business exclusively at their respec-
tive stables.

Number to be
placed on car-
riages.

Additional
sections added.

Special li-
cense may be
granted.

141. The owner of every licensed hackney car-
riage, 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 conspicuous places on
each side of such carriage, both within and with-
out, 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 car-
riage.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the following
additional sections be added to said Article, to be
numbered and arranged after section one hundred
and forty-three.

144. The proprietor of any hackney carriage in
the city of Baltimore who does not intend to go
upon or use the public stands in said city, with
such hackney carriages, shall at the time of apply-
ing for a license for the same as required by the
present, or any future ordinances of the Mayor and