1906, ch. 454. 300в. Any person, corporation or association that shall violate Section 300A of this Act shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for each violation of this Act. Ibid. 300c. The said fine mentioned in Section 300в of this Act shall be recovered by an action of debt in the name of the State of Maryland for the use of the State, who shall sue for it against such person, corporation or association violating this Act, said suit to be instituted in any court in this State having appropriate jurisdiction. Ibid. 300D. The said fine when recovered as aforesaid shall be paid without any deduction whatever, one-half thereof to the informer and the balance thereof to be paid into the public school fund of the State of Maryland; provided, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any part of a railroad where not more than eight regular passenger trains in twentyfour hours pass each way; provided, moreover, that where twenty freight trains pass each way generally in each twentyfour hours then the provisions of this Act shall apply, notwithstanding that there may pass a less number of passenger trains than herein before set forth, namely, eight. Railroad Companies Required To Sell Mileage Books. 1906, ch. 174. 300E. Every railroad corporation owning, controlling or operating a railroad in this State, which charges a fare more than two cents per mile for a first-class straight passenger ticket, shall keep for sale mileage books of two classes, the first having five hundred, and the other one thousand coupons, each coupon for one mile, attached thereto, entitling the holder thereof to travel on the railroad line or lines, owned, controlled or operated by such railroad until all of said coupons are used up, for which such railroad corporation shall charge a sum not to exceed two cents per mile. 1906, ch. 174. 300F. Such railroad corporations shall not charge or receive for a mileage book containing five hundred such coupons more than the sum of twenty dollars, and such mileage books shall be kept for sale by such railroad corporations at every ticket office of such corporations authorized to do business for them, and such mileage book or books shall be delivered to the applicant immediately upon application therefor, and the payment of the price legally demandable therefor. Ibid. 300G. The purchaser of said mileage book, or any member of the family of said purchaser or purchasers, if a firm, his or their employes, shall be entitled to travel on the presentation of said mileage book, on the passenger trains of the railroad owned, controlled or operated by such corporation issuing said book and all the lines thereof, for the number of miles equal to the coupons detached by the conductor of such railroad, and such conductor shall not detach from such mileage book more coupons than the number of miles traveled, and such mileage book shall entitle the purchaser thereof and the parties entitled to use the same to the same rights and privileges in respect to the transportation of themselves and baggage or property to which the holders of the highest class ticket issued by such corporation is entitled. Ibid. 300н. There shall be no stipulation, agreement or condition required by said railroad corporation before it will issue such mileage books, that said mileage books shall become forfeited or null and void by the accidental loss of the same, and said loss shall not render the same forfeited or null and void; and there shall be no limitation of time in which said mileage books shall be good, but the same shall be good until all coupons attached thereto have been used. Ibid. 3001. In the event any railroad corporation owning, controlling or operating a line or lines in this State, shall refuse or neglect to issue a mileage book as prescribed in this law, upon demand for the same and a tender of the price therefor authorized to be charged in this Act, or in violation of any of its provisions, shall refuse through any of its conductors or agents to accept the coupons of such mileage book for transportation according to the terms of this Act, then the person to whom such refusal is made shall be entitled to recover as liquidated damages from said railroad corporation the sum of fifty dollars for each refusal or neglect to issue said book or to accept said coupons, which damages shall be recoverable before any justice of the peace of any county in the State of Maryland or in Baltimore city, in which said railroad corporation has an office or place of business. The right of appeal from the decision of the justice of the peace is hereby reserved to either party, as in other civil cases before a justice of the peace; provided, this Act shall not apply to any railroad chartered under the laws of this State whose gross passenger receipts shall not exceed five thousand dollars annually. 1908, ch. 154. 300J. Every railroad company of this State heretofore or hereafter incorporated may, in its discretion, and from time to time, make use of electricity as a motive power on the whole or on any part or parts of its road, in any form, to be used or applied by storage battery or trolley wire for the purpose of operating its road or any part or parts thereof, or for the movement of all or any of its cars or trains, and either exclusively or concurrently with steam or with any other motive power or system; provided, however, that every railroad company changing its motive power in whole or in part from steam to electricity shall continue to be subject to all the provisions of the laws of this State relating to the taxation of railroad companies whose roads are worked by steam power, to all intents as if no such change of motive power had been made. 1908, ch. 724. 300K. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company doing business in the State of Maryland or any receiver of such railroad company to run or operate over its road or any part of its road, or suffer or permit to be run or operated over its road or any part of its road, any freight train consisting of thirty or more freight or other cars, exclusive of caboose and locomotive, with less than a full train crew, consisting of six persons, to wit: one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, one flagman and two brakemen. 1908, ch. 724. 300L. Any such railroad company or any such receiver violating any of the provisions of Section 300K of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a civil suit or suits to be brought by the Attorney General of the State of Maryland in the name of this State; and it shall be the duty of such Attorney General, without further authorization, to bring such suit or suits upon duly verified information being presented to or lodged with him of such violation having occurred, and the affidavits of at least two citizens of the State of Maryland that such violation has occurred shall be taken and deemed to be duly verified information for the purposes of this Act. Ibid. 300м. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the State of Maryland to enforce the provisions of Sections 300K and 300L of this Act, and all powers granted to the said Attorney General for the enforcement of any other Act or Acts are hereby granted to him for the purpose of the enforcement of said provisions of this Act. Ibid. 300N. Any employee of such railroad company or of any such receiver who may be killed or injured by any train which was run or operated contrary to the provisions of Section 300K of this Act, or who may be killed or injured as a result of any act of any person employed contrary to the provisions of Section 300K of this Act, shall not be deemed thereby to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing in the employment of such railroad company or of such receiver, after the unlawful running or operating of such train or the unlawful employment of such person has been brought to his knowledge; nor shall any such employee be held to have contributed to his death or injury in any case where such railroad company or such receiver shall have violated any of the provisions of Section 300K of this Act, when such violation contributed to the death or injury of such employee; and all questions of negligence or either or both, arising in cases brought under or by virtue of said section of this Act shall be for the jury. Religious Corporations. 1888, art. 23, sec. 205. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 156. 301. In every church, religious society or congregation, of whatever sect, order or denomination, or which shall at any time hereafter be known and acknowledged in the State, and protected in the free and full exercise of its religion by the constitution and the laws thereof, there shall be sufficient power and authority in all persons above twenty-one years of age belonging to any such church, society or congregation, to elect, at their discretion, certain sober and discreet persons, not less than four, nor more than twelve, which persons so elected, upon being registered, as hereinafter directed, shall be constituted a body politic or corporate to act as trustees in the name and behalf of the particular church, society or congregation for which they are respectively chosen, and to manage the estate, property, interest and inheritance of the same. Bethel Church v. Carmack, 2 Md. Ch. 144. Neale v. Vestry of St. Paul's Church, 8 Gill, 116. Tartar v. Gibbs, 24 Md. 323. Erhardt v. Balto. Monthly Meeting, 93 Md. 681. Ibid. sec. 206. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 157. 302. The trustees so elected shall have perpetual succession by their name of incorporation, and shall be capable in law to purchase, take and hold to them and their successors in fee, or for a less estate, any lands, tenements or hereditaments, rents or annuities, goods or chattels within this State, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise of any person, body politic or corporate, Art. 23, sec. 302-Corporations acting as trustees to bond holders must give bond before sale, under Code, Article 16, section 205A. |