Mayor's office August 27th, 1861.
the many Complaints made to me of the improper conduct of Hackmen in this city, induces me to publish the following provisions of the Ordinance, to wit:
- "13. There shall not be charged for the use of a back or other wheeled carriage, kept for hire, more than the following rates! For carrying a person therein not more than ten squares, 35 cents; for each additional square, 3 cents; provided the whole charge for carrying one person to any part of the shall not exceed 70 cents. The charge for carrying not more than four persons shall never, for the whole, exceed one dollar, unless more than an hour be employed, and shall then be only a dollar for the first hour, and all the rate of fifty cents per hour for each succeeding hour. No charge shall be made for infants under three years of age, in charge of another person. For carrying a person between 9 o'clock at night and day break, there may be charged double the above rates, and no more.--For bag age, the charge shall be not more than 12 ½ cents for each trunk carried outside, and nothing or any article carried inside, or for any carpet bag or basket.
- ' 14. Under the direction of the Committee of Police, the Chamberlain shall have made from the map of the city, prepared by Micajah Bates, a reduced plain of the city, and copies thereof, with printed co, less of the rates allowed by this ordinance those for wagons, drays and carts being separate from those for backs and other wheeled carriages. A copy of such reduced plan, with a copy of the rates for the former or latter, as may be desired, shall be delivered by the Chamberlain to every owner of a vehicle, or other person desiring it, upon his paying therefore 25 cents, which shall go to the credit of the city, to indemnify it for the expense of the engraving and printing.
- '15. A copy of such reduced plan, with a copy of the rates for hacks and other wheeled carriages, shall be kept by the driver of every such hack or carriage, and he shall exhibit the same whenever called for by any person employing or using said hack or carriage. And if he shall fall to exhibit the same when so required, or if for carrying a person or baggage there be charged more than is allowed by this ordinance, the owner or keeper of the vehicle, for every day of such failure or for every time of such charge, shall be bleed not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
- ' 16. If any person; desiring the use of a hack or any public vehicle kept for the purpose of taking persons for hire or compensation, from one place to another within this city, shall tender to the owner, keeper or driver of such hack or vehicle whether the driver be a slave or not, the proper charge according to the rate established by this ordinance, for the use and service thereof as required, and the owner, keeper or driver shall fall or refuse to render the service so required he shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars, if a white person, and if a free negro or slave, he may, at the discretion of the Mayor or justice, be punished by stripes, not exceeding thirty-nine, unless the keeper, owner or driver of such hack or vehicle shall, upon summons or warrant, appear, and by proof show good case to the contrary; and no prior engagement of the use or service of such hack or other public vehicle, shall be taken as good can be for such failure or refusal, unless, upon the trial of the offender, he shall make it manifestly appear with whom the prior engagement was made, and the place to which the said hack or such other vehicle was engaged to go, and that there was not, by the use of ordinary diligence, time to render both services: Provided however That between the hours of nine o'clock P. M. and dry light, when his horses are put up in his stable, he shall not be competed to bring them out; but if he does consent to carry the person calling upon him, he shall do so at the rates fixed in this ordinance, under the penalty aforesaid.
