ART. 27] WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS. 435

1904, art. 27, sec. 355. 1904, ch. 110, sec. 3.

396. 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 hav-
ing 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 assist-
ance 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 ejects
ment 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.

1908, ch. 617.

397. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation own-
ing and operating steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay, between the city
of Baltimore and points on said bay or its tributaries, to provide sepa-
rate toilet or retiring rooms, and separate sleeping cabins on their re-
spective steamboats, on or before the first day of July, in the year nine-
teen hundred and eight, for white and colored passengers, under a pen-
.alty 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 pas-
sengers.

1908, ch. 248.

398. Conductors or managers of all railway companies and corpora-
tions, 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 author-
ized and required to designate separate seats for white and colored pas-
sengers, 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
sections 398 to 403.

1908, ch. 248.

399. The railway companies and corporations and persons aforesaid,
shall make no discrimination in the quality of or convenience or accom-
modation in the seats in the cars, coaches or compartments, and no
white person shall force himself or be permitted to force himself or her-
self in a seat designated for a colored person, and no- colored person

shall force himself or herself, or be permitted to force himself or herself
in a seat designated for a white person.