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Ibid.

305B. On and after April 15, 1906, no common carrier shall refuse to receive at any station, wharf or stopping place, a quantity of milk, cream, butter-milk or skim-milk in a unit of two (2) gallons, three (3) gallons, five (5) gallons, seven (7) gallons or ten (10) gallons or groups of these units.

Ibid.

305c. Any breach of the two preceding sections shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the common carrier shall be fined ($50) dollars for the first offense and one hundred ($100) dollars for each succeeding offense.

Passengers-White and Colored-Transportation by Railroad Companies-By Steamboat Companies.

1904, ch. 109, sec. 1.

346. All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers on their respective lines of railroad; and each compartment of a car or coach, divided by a good and substantial partition, with a door or place of exit from each division, shall be deemed a separate car or coach within the meaning of this section, and each separate car, coach or compartment shall bear in some conspicuous place appropriate words, in plain letters, indicating whether it is set apart for white or colored passengers.

Ibid. sec. 2.

347. The railroad companies and corporations and persons aforesaid shall make no difference or discrimination in quality of or convenience or accommodation in the cars, coaches or compartments set apart for white and colored passengers

1904, ch. 109, sec. 3.

348. Any railroad company or corporation or person that shall fail, refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of

Sections 346 and 347 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon indictment and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense.

Ibid. sec. 4.

349. The conductors and managers on all railroads shall have power and are hereby required to assign to each white or colored passenger his or her respective car, coach or compartment, and, should any passenger refuse to occupy the car, coach or compartment to which he or she may be assigned by the conductor or managers, shall have the right to refuse to carry such passenger on his train, and may put such passenger off his train, and for such refusal or putting off the train neither the conductor, manager nor railroad company or corporation, or person owning or operating the same shall be liable for damages in any court; and the passenger so refusing to occupy the car, coach or compartment to which he or she may be assigned by the conductor or manager shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on indictment and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail not less than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each offense.

Ibid. sec. 5.

350. Any conductor or manager on any railroad who shall fail or refuse to perform the duties imposed upon him by Section 349 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon indictment and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than fifty dollars for each offense.

Ibid. sec. 6.

351. When any car, coach or compartment for either white or colored passengers shall be completely filled, where no extra cars or coaches can be obtained, and the increased number of passengers could not be foreseen, the conductor or manager in charge of such train is hereby authorized to assign and set apart a portion of the car, coach or compartment assigned to passengers of one color to passengers of the other color.

1904, ch. 109, sec. 7.

352. The provisions of the six preceding sections shall not apply to employes of railroads, or to persons employed as nurses, or to officers in charge of prisoners, whether the said prisoners are white or colored, or both white and colored, or to the prisoners in their custody, nor shall the same apply to the transportation of passengers in any caboose car attached to a freight train, nor to parlor nor sleeping cars, nor through express trains that do no local business.

1908, ch. 248.

352A. That conductors or managers of all railway companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by electricity, running twenty miles beyond the limits of any incorporated city or town of the State for the transportation of passengers, are hereby authorized and required to designate separate seats for white and colored passengers, without any difference in the quality of or convenience or accommodation of the seats in such cars or coaches. The ordinary seat for two persons shall be deemed a separate seat within the meaning of this Act.

Ibid.

352B. The railway companies and corporations and persons aforesaid, shall make no discrimination in the quality of or convenience or accommodation in the seats in the cars, coaches or compartments, and no white person shall force himself or be permitted to force himself or herself in a seat designated for a colored person, and no colored person shall force himself or herself, or be permitted to force nimself or herself in a seat designated for a white person.

Ibid.

352c. The conductors or managers on all railways shall have power, and are hereby required to assign to each white or colored person, his or her respective seat in said car, coach or compartment, and should any passenger refuse to occupy the seat to which he or she may be assigned by the conductor or manager, said conductor or manager shall have the right

to refuse to carry such passenger on his car or coach, and may put such passenger off his car or coach, and for such refusal or putting off the car or coach neither the conductor, manager or railway company or corporation or person owning or operating the same shall be liable to damages in any court, and the passenger so refusing to occupy the designated seat to which he or she may be assigned, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on indictment and conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each offense.

Ibid.

352D. Any conductor or manager on any railway who shall upon request, refuse to perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof shall be fined not more than twenty dollars for each offense.

Ibid.

352E. When the seats in any car, coach or compartment shall all be occupied, but not filled, and the increased number of passengers cannot be accommodated with separate seats, the conductor or manager in charge of such car or coach is hereby authorized to assign passengers of the same color to the vacant seats, and he can, with the permission and consent of the occupant, assign a passenger of the other color to the unoccupied seats, but not otherwise.

Ibid.

352F. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to persons employed as nurses or valets when accompanying those needing their attention.

1904, ch. 110, sec. 1.

353. It shall be the duty of any captain, purser or other officer in command of any steamboat carrying passengers and plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the State of Maryland to assign white and colored passengers on said boats to the respective locations they are to occupy as passengers while on said boat; and it shall be the duty of said captain,

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purser or other officer in command to separate, as far as the construction of his boat and due consideration for the comfort of the passengers will permit, the white and colored passengers on said boat in the sitting, sleeping and eating apartments; provided, however, that no discrimination shall be made in the quality and convenience of accommodation afforded passengers in said locations; and provided, that this section and the two succeeding sections shall not apply to nurses or attendants traveling with their employers, nor to officers in charge of pris oners, whether the said prisoners are white or colored, or both. white and colored, or to prisoners in their custody.

Ibid. sec. 2.

354. Any captain, purser or other officer in command of any steamboat as aforesaid who shall refuse to carry out the provisions of Section 353 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment in any court having jurisdiction, and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than fifty dollars for each offense.

Ibid. sec. 3.

355. Any passenger traveling on any steamboat plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of this State who shall wilfully refuse to occupy the location, whether of sitting, sleeping or eating, set apart or assigned by the captain, purser or other officer in command of such boat, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on indictment in any court having jurisdiction, and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail not less than thirty days, in the discretion of the court, for each offense; and such passenger may be ejected from the said boat by the officers thereof at any wharf or landing place of said boat, and, if necessary, such assistance may be invoked by the person in charge of said boat as he may require to eject such passenger; and provided, that in case of such ejectment neither the captain nor other person in charge of such boat, nor the steamboat company or corporation or person owning or operating such boat shall be liable in damages in any court.

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