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680 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23
1906, Ch. 174.
328. The purchaser of said mileage book, or any member of the
family of said purchaser or purchasers, if a firm, his or their employees,
shall be entitled to travel, on the presentation of said mileage book, on
the passenger trains of the railroad owned, controlled or operated by
such corporation issuing said book and all the lines thereof, for the
number of miles equal to the coupons detached by the conductor of such
railroad, and such conductor shall not detach from such mileage book
more coupons than the number of miles traveled, and such mileage book
shall entitle the purchaser thereof and the parties entitled, to use the
same to the same rights and privileges in reapect to the transportation
of themselves and baggage or property to which the holders of the
highest class ticket issued by such corporation is entitled.
1006, ch. 174.
. 329. There shall be no stipulation, agreement or condition required
by said railroad corporation before it will issue such mileage books, that
said mileage books shall become forfeited or null and void by the acci-
dental loss of the same, and said loss shall not render the same forfeited
or null and void; and there shall be no limitation of time in which such
mileage books shall be good, but the same shall be good until all coupons
attached thereto have been used.
1906, ch. 174.
330. In the event any railroad corporation owning, controlling or
operating a line or lines in this State shall refuse or neglect to issue a
mileage book as prescribed in this law, upon demand for the same and
a tender of the price therefor authorized to be charged in sections
326 and 327, or in violation of any of the provisions of sections
326 to 330, shall refuse through any of its conductors or agents to
accept the coupons of such mileage book for transportation according
to the terms of sections 326-330, then the person to whom such refusal
is made shall be entitled to recover as liquidated damages from said
railroad corporation the sum of fifty dollars for each refusal or neglect
to issue said book or to accept said coupons, which damages shall be
recoverable before any justice of the peace of any county in the State
of Maryland or in Baltimore city, in which said railroad corporation
has an office or place of business. The same right of appeal from the
decision of the justice of the peace is hereby reserved to either party,
as in other civil cases before a justice of the peace; provided, sections
326-330 shall rot apply to any railroad charted under the laws of this
State whose gross passenger receipts shall not exceed five thousand
dollars annually.
1908, ch. 724, sec. 300 E .
331. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company doing business
in the State of Marylard or any receiver of such railroad company to
run or operate over its road or any part of its road, or suffer or permit
to be run or operated over its road or any part of its road, any freight
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