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Any person, corporation or association that shall violate section 323,
shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for each violation thereof.

As to the hours of work In factories, the employment of children, etc., see
art. 100.

1906, ch. 454.

324. The fine mentioned in the preceding section shall be recovered
by an action of debt in the name of the State of Maryland for the use
of the State, who shall sue for it against silch person, corporation or
association violating said section, said suit to be instituted in any
court in this State having appropriate jurisdiction.

1906, ch. 454.

325. The said fine when recovered as aforesaid shall be paid with-
out any deduction whatever, one-half thereof to the informer, and the
balance thereof to be paid into the public school fund of the State of
Maryland; provided, that the provisions of sections 323 to 325 shall
not apply to any part of a railroad where not more than eight regular
passenger trains in twenty-four hours pass each way; provided, more-
over, that where twenty freight trains pass each way generally in each
twenty-four hours then the provisions of sections 323 to 325 shall apply,
notwithstanding that there may pass a less number of passenger trains
than hereinbefore set forth, namely, eight.

1906, ch. 174.

326. Every railroad corporation owning, controlling or operating a
railroad in this State, which charges a fare of more than two cents per
mile for a first-class straight passenger ticket, shall keep for sale mile-
age books of two classes, the first having five hundred, and the other
one thousand coupons, each coupon for one mile, attached thereto,
entitling the holder thereof to travel on the railroad line or lines,
owned, controlled or operated by such railroad until all of said coupons
are used up, for which such railroad corporation shall charge a sum not
to exceed two cents per mile.

1906, ch. 174.

327. Such railroad corporations shall not charge or receive for a
mileage book containing five hundred such coupons more than the sum
of ten dollars, and for a mileage book containing one thousand such
coupons not more than the sum of twenty dollars; and such mileage
books shall be kept for sale by such railroad corporations at every ticket
office of such corporations authorized to do business for them, and such
mileage book or books shall be delivered to the applicant immediately
upon application therefor, and the payment of the price legally demand-
able therefor.

Aa to tariff schedules, see sec. 427; as to the determination of when rates

are just and reasonable, see sec. 435; as to freight rates on Inter-state traffic,

see sec. 441. See also, sec. 275.