Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-04-14
REGULATIONS CONCERNING HACKS
's AND HACKMEN

How TO Know WHO THE HICKMAN Is.-All hacks
| are required TO be licensed and to have tho Nun.
Der Of their licenses 70 be painted in black figures
of not less than two inches in depth, on the from,
and side Of each lamp attached to such carriage
or if there be no lamps, the numbers shall be con
| spicuously painted on each side of the drivers
| box.
In case any stranger or other person feels him
self aggrieved by any hack-driver, let him obtain
| the number of the hack. How to reach him with
the law is hereafter pointed out.
RATES OF FARE ALLOWED BY LAw.-For each
passenger for any distance not over one mile and
nail ...... ............ ....... 70 cents
Over one and a half miles, and not over
three miles. so /" #
When detained on route over FIVE min
utes, driver to be allowed in addi-
tlon for each quarter of an hour de-
ned. ..................... 123 I.
The above are the rates allowed between day.
break and o'clock p. M. After p. M. the rates
of fare allowed are as follows
For each passenger for not over one
mile and half. ........... 371 cents
For one and 2 half miles, and not over
three niles. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IS /"
For de,entons, for each quarter of an
hour. lS4
RIGHTS of PERSONS HIRING HAcKs.-When
more than two persons are in hack the driver is
not permitted 10 take up another passenger with
out the consent ofpersons already in his hack.
When any number Of persons employ hack
uTiVeT Is HOT allowed 10 take any DINER pas
senger, provided the occupant will pay him the
fare Of three persons.
Hacklnen are allowed TO receive greater COM
pensation than is fixed by law If il be voluntarily
offered by the passenger; but if he receive the
same without informing the passenger that il is
greater than his legal fare, he is guilty of having
demanded the illegal fare.
In CASES OF REFUSAL BY HAcKMEN TO TAKE Pas
sENGERs.-Hackmen are required by law to carry
all passengers rendering them the legal fare unless
previously engaged for the time necessary TO trans
port passengers offering him the fare, under a
penalty OF Ave dollars.
When hackman shall refuse to take passen-
gers, on the plea of a previous engagement, he is
required TO give the name and residence of the
person by whom he is so engaged under penalty
of live dollars.
iii should appear that the plea Of a previous
engagement was false one. or that the inforna-
ton ofthe name and residence of the person given
by The hickman was false, then the hackman
incurs penalty Olive dollars.
PENALTY FOR DEMANDING ILLEGAL FARE.-The
penalty for demanding higher rate Of fare for the
transportation OF passengers, is five dollars for
each offence; and the person paying the illegal
fare may recover back the amount over and above
the sum allowed by law.
Where illegal fare is demanded or received Of
stranger. or any person who shall not al the time
have resided twelve months in the city, the pen
atty for doing is double, or ten dollars for each
offence.
SLEeHs.-The rates Of fare and all the other con-
ditions terms, and penalties, prescribed by law for
the regulation of hackney carriages, apply 10 all
sleighs running for hire within the city Of Wash
ington.
DRIvERs-No person under sixteen years Of age
is allowed by law TO drive any hack cab, or sleigh
for hire in this city, under penalty Of 1--WE dollars
How TO VINDIcATE THE LAw.--Strangers and
others arriving in The city by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad who shall apply TO a hackman for
the use of his vehicle and be refused, or who shall
be asked and required TO pay over and above the.
legal rates of fare, will observe the number on the
hack, and Immediately inform the police officer
whose duty il is 10 be in attendance al the depot.
That officer win protect the passenger from mpo-
stion, secure him hack, and prosecute the OF.
Tending hackman.
Any refusal or neglect by the police officer al the
depot TO execute the law in this respect he knows
will be followed promptly by his dismissal.
Strangers reaching the depot from steamboats,
or other places from whom illegal fare is demanded
will apply TO the police officer in attendance whose
duty tits 10 ascertain whether the fare demanded
be illegal, and if so, TO prosecute the offending
hackman.