1908, ch. 617.

356. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning and operating steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay, between the city of Baltimore and points on said bay or its tributaries, to provide separate toilet, or retiring rooms, and separate sleeping cabins on their respective steamboats, on or before the first day of July, in the year nineteen hundred and eight, for white and colored passengers, under a penalty of a fine of fifty dollars for each and every day said steamboats may be operated upon the waters aforesaid in violation of this section, and the provisions of the four preceding sections shall apply in the assigning of passengers to the use of the toilet, or retiring rooms, and the sleeping quarters set apart for the respective white and colored passengers.

Telegraphs and Telephones.

1888, art. 27, sec. 252. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 135. 1900, ch. 610. 389. Any person connected with any telegraph or telephone corporation, company or individuals operating said lines for profit in this State, either as clerk, operator, messenger, or in any other capacity, who shall wilfully divulge the contents or nature of the contents of any private communication entrusted to him for transmission or delivery, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same, shall, on conviction before any court having criminal jurisdiction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer imprisonment in the jail in the county or city where such conviction shall be had for a term of not more than three months, or shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court.

1906, ch. 403.

651. When any indictment shall be found or information filed by the Attorney General in this State for violation of its laws against any corporation, joint stock company or association incorporated under its laws, or against any corporation not incorporated under its laws, but deemed to hold and exercise franchises herein, or any joint stock company or association doing business in this State, it shall and may be lawful for the Attorney General or prosecuting attorney for the State

to cause a summons or notice to be directed to the said corporation, joint stock company or association, in its corporate name, to appear at the said court to answer to such indictment or information, and such process may be served in the same manner as provided for service of process in civil suits mentioned in sections numbered 411 and 412 of Article 23 of Poe's Code of Public General Laws of 1904, entitled "Corporations," sub-title "Process."

652. When the sheriff or other officer shall return such summons or notice "summoned" or "served," the said corporation, joint stock company or association shall be considered as in court and as appearing to said indictment or information, and the court shall order the clerk to enter an appearance for said corporation, joint stock company or association, and indorse the plea of not guilty on said indictment or information, and further proceedings may then be had thereon, in the same manner as if the said corporation, joint stock company or association had appeared and pleaded not guilty; and if the said corporation, joint stock company or association shall be convicted on said indictment or information, the said court may proceed to pass judgment thereon and cause process of execution to be issued to the sheriff of the county against the goods and chattels, or lands and tenements of the said corporation, joint stock company or association for the amount of the fine and costs which may be awarded against them, in the same manner as on a judgment in a civil action; and the said sheriff shall proceed to sell the goods and chattels or lands and tenements of the said corporation, joint stock company or association, on the said execution in the same manner as on execu tions issued in a civil suit.

Railroads Obstructing.

1888, art. 27, sec. 230. 1860, art. 30, sec. 159. 1839, ch. 10, sec. 1. 364. If any person shall place anything, or cause anything to be placed on any railroad in this State, calculated to obstruct, overthrow or direct from the track of such railroad any car, vehicle or carriage, traveling or passing on such railroad,

or shall break or injure in any manner any railroad in this State, with the view or intent to obstruct or overthrow any car, vehicle or carriage, such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 231. 1860, art. 30, sec. 160, 1839, ch. 10, secs. 2, 3.

365. If the death of any person shall be occasioned by the overthrow or obstruction of any railroad car, vehicle or carriage, produced by the placing of anything or obstruction on any railroad, or by breaking or injuring any railroad, or any bridge attached thereto, in violation of the preceding section, then the person so placing the thing or obstructing, or breaking or injuring, shall be deemed guilty of murder.

1892, ch. 17, secs. 231A & B. 1892, ch. 397, 231A. 1892, ch. 540. 366. Any person who shall cling, climb, jump, step or in any other way get upon any part of any locomotive, engine or car, whether the same be freight, passenger, coal or otherwise, upon any part of the track of any railroad within this State, unless in so doing he acts in compliance with law, or by permission under the rules and regulations of the railroad company or corporation operating and managing such railroad, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars, or be subject to imprisonment in jail or in the House of Correction for not more than six months, or to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the justice of the peace trying the case, or court before whom the case may be tried; or if such person be a minor under sixteen years of age, he may, in the discretion of the justice of the peace, or any court trying the case, be committed to any reformatory institution provided by law, and authorized to receive the same, for such period as the justice of the peace or court may determine, not to exceed two years.

Campbell v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 97 Md. 342.

1902, ch. 150, sec. 231B.

367. Any person, other than the duly authorized employes of any railroad company, who shall interfere with the signals by which the movements of the trains of such railroad company are governed by giving what is known as a train signal to start any train when at rest, or to stop any train when in motion, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upan conviction thereof be sentenced to the House of Correction or the county or city jail for not more than six months.

ARTICLE LVI.

LICENSES.

Telegraph and Express Companies.

1888, art. 56, sec. 102. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 4. 119. It shall not be lawful for any telegraph company or for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to do the business of telegraphing for profit or hire in any way within this State, or to receive compensation therefor or to open any office for the transaction of such business within this State, without first obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided.

Ibid. sec. 103. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 5. 120. It shall not be lawful for any express or transportation company, or for any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, to do the business of transporting or forwarding goods or packages of any sort, or of any article of trade or traffic for profit or hire within this State, without first obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided.

1888, art. 56, sec. 104. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 6. 121. Any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, association or corporation proposing to do the business of telegraphing for profit or hire within this State and any express or

transportation company, or any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation proposing to do the business of transporting or forwarding for profit or hire within this State goods or packages of any sort or any article of trade or traffic shall pay to the Comptroller for a license to do such business in this State, for one year, the sum of three hundred dollars, or a proportional part of said sum for any fractional part of a year not less than one month; and all licenses so issued shall be made to expire on the first day of May next succeeding the date of their issue.

Ibid. sec. 105. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 7.

122. Service of legal process upon any of the officers or agents of any person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation transacting said business of telegraphing or of transporting or forwarding for profit or hire as aforesaid, within this State, shall be a sufficient service on the person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation; provided, a copy of such process shall be placed in the post-office by the officer serving the same, directed to the officer in charge of the principal office of said person, firm, partnership, associatiton, company or corporation in the city of Baltimore; and such officer, in making return of such process, shall certify to the court on the day of said service that he complied with the provisions of this section by placing such copy in the postoffice so directed with a sufficient postage stamp annexed to the envelope containing the same.

Ibid. sec. 106. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 8.

123. If any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, association or corporation shall do the business of telegraphing for profit or hire within this State or shall open any office or offices for the transaction of such business, or if any express or transportation company, or any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation shall do the business of transporting or forwarding any article of trade or traffic for profit or hire within this State or shall open any office or offices for the transaction of such business without having first obtained a license to transact such business as aforesaid, the company,