Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-12
HACK ORDINANCE.
The Obnoxious Section Repealed and the
Balance Dies

/ SalanCe Dies.
The Board Of City Trustees, at its session
yesterday morning, took up the recently
| adopted hack ordinance, and in accordance
| with tie general sentiment of the people o.
Sacramento, who never desired that any
] such ordinance should be passed, nor even
proposed, repealed it. The ordinance (No
1867, which was passed on the 4th instant
and was to go into effect August 10Th, pro-
| yided in Section for collection of license
of $50 per quarter, from all non-residents
for the privilege of operating hacks in this
| city.
| The cleancst way to remedy what had
been thus inadvertently done, would have
been for the Board to simply repeal the en-
| tire ordinance, No. 196, but instead of doing
so it adopted course in the interest OF
peace and quiet" which satisfied the
| lobby of hackmen who were present, but
| which at the same time killed the entire
repeal Section l, the following ordinance
| was passed.
ORDINANCE No. 1877.
An ordinance TO regulate and license vehicles
carrying persons for hire within the city
limits.
The Board of Trustees of the city of Sacra-
mento do ordain as follows:
Section l. Section of Ordinance No 196 is
hereby repealed.
Passed August II, ISL
Now. while the purport of this ordinance,
No. 1877, was to simply repeal Section of
the former ordinance, and thus apparently
preserve the other three sections, which
provided against runners for hack bust
ness, il will be observed that these last
three sections depend entirely upon Section
/, 1,o,c repealed, for their life and authority,
and hence are effectually annulled with
that section. They are as follows:
Section .. Every person except the driver of
any vehicle which may engage in the business
mentioned il. Section Of This ordnance, who shall
| act in the capacity of Il runner, or who shall
solicit the patronage or custom of persons for
such vehicle shall for doing the same. procure
a city license from the City Collector, and pay
therefor the sum of $40 per annum in advance.
Section g. Any person violating the provisions
of this ordinance, upon Il conviction thereof
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding 500, or
be imprisoned in the city prison for a period
not exceeding ten days or shall be punished by
both such fine and imprisonment
Section 1. This ordinance shall take effect and
Oe in force from and after the 10th day of
August, 1851
assed August 4, 1854.
Thus it will be seen that Section 2 is en-
urcly dependent upon business mention
cd in Section of this ordinance" .. for de-
scription Of those TO be affected by Section
>, and, since there is no Section l in exist
ence, no one is specified upon whom the
section is TO operate Section 3 simply
provided penalty under a provision thus
already set aside, and Section merely de-
clares when the dead provision was TO have
gone into effect.
II may be added here, that for many
years past no license has been charged in
this city for running hacks, express wagons,
drays, etc, and it is highly proper that no
charge should be made now. The Board
has very wisely, therefore repealed the Or
dinance, which, had it gone into effect,
would have done an injustice and reflected
against the city, but which is thus prompt
ly set aside when the fell scope and effect
of its provisions became known. 1t is to
be hoped that those of our contemporaries
who have critically noticed the passage of
the ordinance will as promptly and Justly
notice its repeal