ART. 23] RAILROAD COMPANIES. 677

1904, art. 23 sec. 295. 1890, ch. 443, secs. 1 and 2.

315. It shall not be lawful for any railroad company doing business
in this State to withhold any part of the wages of its employes for
the benefit of any relief association or the members thereof. Any
railroad company violating the provisions of this section shall upon
conviction be fined not less than fifty ($50) dollars, nor more than five
hundred ($500) dollars for each and every offense.
See sec. 123.

Ibid. sec. 296. 1894, ch. 269.

316. The board of public works may, when it is shown to their
satisfaction by any railroad company that it is impracticable for such
railroad company to equip all of its cars with heating apparatus other
than stoves, within the time required by law, prescribe what number
of cars of such railroad company shall be equipped with improved
heating apparatus by such company in each year.

Ibid. sec. 297. 1902, ch. 615, sec. 1.

317. No railroad company incorporated by or under the authority
of this State, or doing business therein, shall issue, sell or receive
tickets for passage through the city of Baltimore, or make agreement
or agreements with any other railroad company or companies outside
of this State to issue or sell tickets for passage over their respective;
lines through the city of Baltimore, unless there is a coupon on said
tickets for passage from a given place in or out of this State to the
city of Baltimore, and another coupon on said tickets from the city of
Baltimore to a given place in or out of this State.

Ibid. sec. 298. 1902, ch. 615.

318. In issuing or selling all tickets for passage in this State
through the city of Baltimore, or making agreements with other rail-
road companies outside of this State to issue or sell tickets for passage
through the city of Baltimore, the said tickets shall permit the holders
thereof to a stop-over privilege of at least forty-eight (48) hours in
the city of Baltimore; provided, that nothing in this section shall
prohibit railroad companies from issuing and selling tickets without
this stop-over privilege in the city of Baltimore, for special occasions,
when the tickets for passage are good only on excursion trains not on
the regular schedule of the railroad.

Ibid. sec. 299. 1902, ch. 615.

319. All passenger trains passing through the city of Baltimore
must stop at least three minutes at the principal station of the company
operating said trains, and the stoppage of all trains must be announced
in such manner as will give passengers ample opportunity to get off.
See sec. 285.

1910, ch. 102 (p. 82).

320. All regular passenger trains run or operated by the Northern
Central Railroad Company in either direction between the city of