594 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 424]
fide school children under twenty years of age, over any one
or any two or more consecutive fare zones as may be requested
by the purchaser, each of such commutation tickets to contain
a coupon for each trip of such round trip over each of the
zones covered by such ticket; said round trip commutation
tickets to be bound and sold together at a rate not exceeding
forty-two and five-tenths (42.5) per centum of the rate of the
full cash fare, as provided in the preceding section; provided,
that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to require
said railway company to sell such round trip commutation
tickets over said zone number two or zone number three, singly,
but such commutation tickets shall be sold when requested to
cover both of said two zones, without including any other zone.
Said railway company shall also sell family tickets for trans-
portation over said fare zones number two and number three
(but not over any other zone), to be good over either of said
two zones for one year, from date of purchase and for travel
in either direction, the same to be bound and sold in books of
forty (40) tickets at the price of one dollar ($1.00) for each
of said books, each of said tickets, when presented with the
cover in which it was sold, to be good for the transportation of
the purchaser or any member of his or her family or house-
hold over said zone number two or zone number three, or any
number of persons of such family or household traveling
together may use tickets from the same book in payment of
fares over either or both of said two zones; provided, that
nothing contained in this act shall be construed to prevent said
railway company from hauling passengers free of charge or to
grant them special and lower cash, commutation, or other rates-
over that portion of its railway lying between the District of
Columbia and Somerset Heights. And provided further that
said railway company, shall at all times have on sale at some
convenient place and during reasonable hours in the town of
Rockville, and at such other place as it may see fit, the books
of commutation and family tickets provided for in this act.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for any violation
of the preceding sections the said Washington and Rockville
Railway Company shall be subject to a fine of one hundred
dollars ($100) for each violation thereof, and other costs, upon
conviction by any justice of the peace of said Montgomery
county, the said fine to be paid to the treasurer of said county.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That said railway com-
pany shall maintain or have at the county seat of said Mont-
gomery county an officer or attorney fully authorized and
empowered to accept service of summons for said railway com-
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