Commonwealth v. Matthews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint dated August 16, 1876, charging the defendant with a violation of § 13 of the rules and regulations relating to hacks and wagons, passed by the board of mayor and aldermen, 3i the city of Boston, September 21, 1875, providing that “ no owner, driver, or other person having charge of any hackney carriage, shall stand with such carriage to solicit passengers in any street, square, lane, alley, or public place within the city, other than the place assigned to such…
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Complaint dated August 16, 1876, charging the defendant with a violation of § 13 of the rules and regulations relating to hacks and wagons, passed by the board of mayor and aldermen, 3i the city of Boston, September 21, 1875, providing that “ no owner, driver, or other person having charge of any hackney carriage, shall stand with such carriage to solicit passengers in any street, square, lane, alley, or public place within the city, other than the place assigned to such carriage by the board of aldeimen, under a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence.” At the trial in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
We have no doubt of the power of the board of aldermen to establish such a regulation, under the authority given them by the Gen. Sts. c. 19, § 14. There is nothing, in the terms of that statute, that confines their powers to the making of rules as to the running of carriages in the streets; and it is manifest that the inconvenience occasioned by allowing them to stand at railroad stations, and other crowded places, might require equally minute regulations. The power to regulate is given in the most general terms, and we cannot say that the manner in which it is exercised is unreasonable.
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