The Washington times., 1894-11-06
Two-HoRsE VEHICLES.
DAY RATES tBFTwrEx AND 1880 4.

n ID A. ,.
BY the trip IS square or less, or ? passen-
gers, 80 cents; each additional passenger, %
cents Each additional squares or paris OF
squares, !, or = pass sngers 10 cents; each addi-
uonal passenger, 10 cents
by the hour: First hour, or more passengers,
Sl.50; each additional quarter hour or part
thereof, one or more passengers, % cents.
MIDNIGHT RATES (BETWEES 1890 A. NJ AND . A. NJ.
By the triu: Is squares or less, or passen-
ge~s, 50 cents; each additional passenger, 40
cents. EacH additional squares or parts of
squares, or passengers, 10 cents; each addi-
Uunal passenger, 10 cents.
BY the hour: First hour, or more passengers,
$3.50; each additional quarter hour or part
Thereof. or mure passengers, 40 cents
When vehicles are not engaged by the hour
trip rates shall be charged
When charges for consecutive trips exceed
rates per hour, charges shall be by the hour.
Fare 70 IOn n outside the cities OF Washing
ton and Georgetown shall be charged by the
hour, but vehicles dismissed outside city limits
may charge p cents additional
Disputes may be settled al the nearest police
ststi u.
a 2-horse vehicle is not compelled 10 carry less
than two passengers except wnen paid for two.
Children between five and twelve years, one
half rates
Each passenger shall be entitled to have con-
yeyel. without extra charge, one trunk or other
no more than two trunks or other travelling
boxes or bags 10 be conveyed al any one time
for the person or persons hiring the hack. (
there be more than two trunks travelling boxes
five cents for each one additional 10 the two
Each passenger shall be emitted also 10 have
conveyed without charge, such otler small
packages as can be conveniently carried within
the hack, and the driver shall load and unload
all baggage without charge
SEC. 3 Every hack shall have permanently
anXed 10 he interior thereof, in a place readily
TO be seen by the passenger, The foregoing
schedule Of rates and no other which schedule
shall be printed on heavy cards, eight by ten
inches in 81 printed in black ink, with full
face type.
SIC. l. In case of any disagreement between
the driver and the passenger OF a hack, the
same may be referred by the passenger to the
nearest police station, whittier the driver shall
convey him without discussion or delay, and the
decision of the Lieutenant of Police o. other
officer in charge of such station shall be con-
elusive; and in case the passenger IS about to
leave by railroad, stage, or steamboat, such dis
agreement shall be sunmarily decided by the
police officer or principal police officer on duty
NJ the station or other place of departure. If
decision is in favor of passenger, the driver
must carry him from police station TO his orig
inal destination without additional charge
SC , Both he driver and the PROPRIETOR or
lessee Of a hack shau be held responsible for any
violation of any of the foregoing prov sions OF
this Article: Pr0Ujded, That the penalty therefor
shall be paid at once: and for every violation of
any of the said pr visions the said driver, pro-
atty Of five dollars if the mplainant be resi-
dent OF the District of COlum bia, and ten dollars
II the complainant be nonresident, and in adj
dition TO this the license of the said hack may,
in the discretion of the Commissioners, be re-
yoked
SEC, g. If any driver, proprietor, or lessee of a
hack shall refuse to convey a passenger at the
rates hereinbefOre provided the license Of the
hack may be revoked by the Commissioners
JOHN W, ROSS
GEORGE TRUESDELL,
CHARLES F. POWELL,
Commissioners Of the District OF Columbia,