Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-01
REGULATIONS CONCERNING HACKS
AND HACKMEN

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How TO Know WHO THE HACKMAN Is.--All hacks
are required to be licensed, and to have the mum
ber of their licenses to be paptcd In black figures
of not less than inches in depth, on the front
or if there be no lamps, the numbers shall he
spicuously painted on each side OF the drivers
box. s.ffH a &at
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 ny LAw.-For each
passenger for any distance not tover one mile and
q hall 10 cents.
Over one and half miles, and not over
three miles s..,.................. oO
When detained on route over i've min
utes, driver to be allowed, In addi-
ton, for each quarter Of an hour de-
ned. ......... LA
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. f.................... 373 cents.
For one and half miles, and not over
three miles. ....................... 10
For detentions, for each quarter OF an
hour. .................... lS3
RIGHTs OF PERSONS HIRING HACKs-When
more than two persons are in a hack the driver v
not permitted to take up another passenger with
out the consent of persons already in his hack
When any number of persons employ hack
the driver is not allowed to take up any other pas
senger, provided the occupant will pay him the
fare of three persons.
Hackmen are allowed to receive greater com
pensation than is fixed by law if il be voluntarily
offered by the passenger; but il ne receive the
same without informing the passenger that II is
greater than his legal fare, he is guilty OF having
demanded the illegal fare.
In CASES OF REFUSAL BY HAcKMEN TO TAKE PAS
sENaERs-Hackmen are required by law 10 carry
all passengers rendering them the legal fare unless
previously engaged for the time necessary 10 trans.
port passengers offering him the fare, under
penalty Of five dollars.
When hackman shall refuse to take passru-
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 five dollars.
Ifit should appear that the plea vi a previous
engagement was a false one, or that the lniorma-
ton of the name and residence Of the person given
by the hackman was false, then the hackman
incurs penalty offve dollars.
PENALTY FOR DEMANDING ILLEGAL FARR-The
penalty tor demanding higher rate of fare for the
transportation of passengers, Is hve dollars foI
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 so doing is double, or ten dollars for each
offence.
SIEIeHs-The rates OF fare and all the other con-
dtions 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.
DRIvRRs-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 five dollars.
How TO VNDIcATE THE LAw-Strangers and
others arriving in the city by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, who shall apply to 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 ofhcer
whose duty il is TO be in attendance at the depot
That officer will protect the. passenger from impo-
sition, secure him hack, and prosecute the Of
Tending hackman.
Any refusal neglect by the police oficer al the
depo, 10 execute the law in this respect he knows
viii be followed promptly by his dismissal.
Strangers reaching the depot from steamboat.
or other places from whom illegal fareis demanded
win apply to the police officer in attendance, whose
duty II is 10 ascertain whether the fare demanded
be illegal, and If so, to prosecute the Offending
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