432 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

383. Any person or persons who knowingly receives any money or
other valuable thing "without lawful, actual, bona, fide consideration"
from the earnings of any woman or girl engaged in prostitution shall
be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to
the penitentiary for not less than three nor more than ten years.

1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

384. Any person or persons who attempts to detain any girl or
woman in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of any
debt or debts she has contracted or is said to have contracted while liv-
ing in said house, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more
than twelve years.

1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

385. Any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be trans-
ported or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, by any means of
conveyance, through or across this State, any woman or girl for the pur-
pose of prostitution, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice or
compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute, shall be deemed
guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary for not less than three nor more than ten years; any person
who may commit the crime in this section mentioned may be prose-
cuted, indicted, tried and convicted in any county or city in or through
which he shall so transport or attempt to transport any woman or girl
aforesaid.

1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

386. Nothing contained in this sub-title shall abrogate or effect any
existing law defining or prohibiting the crime of abduction or rape, as
contained in Sections 1 and 2, Sections 420, 421 and 422 of Article 27
of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to crimes and punish-
ments.

Passengers—White and Colored—Transportation by Railroad
Companies—By Steamboat Companies.

1904, art. 27, sec. 346. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 1.

387. All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons run-
ning or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track
in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are
hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and
transportation of the white and colored passengers on their respective
lines of railroad; and each compartment of a car or coach, divided by a
good and substantial partition, with a door or place of exit from each
division, shall be deemed a separate car or coach within the meaning
of this section, and each separate car, coach or compartment shall bear