Vansant v. Harlem Stage Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. Section 138, of Article 4, of the Code of Public Local Laws, provided as follows : “ The Mayor and City Council have power to license and regulate hackney coaches, or other carriages kept for hire and employed within the city, and also draymen, wagoners, carters, porters, and watermen, residing and employed within the said city, with power to make all necessary regulations respecting the same.”
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. Section 138, of Article 4, of the Code of Public Local Laws, provided as follows : “ The Mayor and City Council have power to license and regulate hackney coaches, or other carriages kept for hire and employed within the city, and also draymen, wagoners, carters, porters, and watermen, residing and employed within the said city, with power to make all necessary regulations respecting the same.” By the Act of 1880, ch. 69, this section was repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows: “Sec. 138. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have…
1Opinion of the Court
Stone, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.
The Act of 1880, chap. 69, of the Public Local Laws, conferred upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the power to license and regulate certain vehicles, owned and used in the city, and also to license and regulate certain occupations carried on therein. The true construction of this Act, and to define what power it intended to grant to the city, and whether the city, in its dealing with the appellee, has exceeded the powers it derived from that Act, are the two questions presented to us on this appeal.
First, as to tbe true construction of…
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