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mutation passenger tickets, and joint interchangeable mileage
tickets.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
Chapter 180 of the Public General Laws of Maryland of the
year 1910, entitled "An Act to create and establish, a Public
Service Commission, and prescribing its powers and duties, and
to provide for the regulation and control of public service cor-
porations and public utilities and making appropriations there-
for," to follow directly after section 23 of said law, and to be
designated as section 23A, providing for and to be entitled "The
regulation of the issuance by common carriers in this State of
mileage, excursion, school commutation or commutation passen-
ger tickets and joint interchangeable mileage tickets," and to
read as follows:

SEC. 23A. And be it further enacted, That whenever the
commission shall be of the opinion after a hearing upon its
own motion or upon a complaint made as provided in this act,
that the issuance by common carriers in this State of mileage,
excursion, school commutation or commutation passenger
tickets, or joint interchangeable mileage tickets, would be a
desirable advantageous and reasonable thing for the people con-
cerned to demand, it shall be the duty of the commission to
order the common carrier, or common carriers, to establish such
rates and issue such tickets as the said commission may deem
reasonable and proper; such tickets to be good on any or all
branches, lines or sections of the carrier's route in this State,
or only on certain specific branches, lines or sections, as the
commission may order and direct.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 163.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Article XII of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of the year
1904, entitled "Bastardy and Fornication."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article XII of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland of the year 1904 is hereby repealed except in so far
as the same is applicable to cases heretofore commenced or here-