ART. 27] OBSTRUCTING RAILROADS. 439

1904, art. 27, sec. 365. 1888, art. 27, sec. 231. 1860, art. 30, sec. 160.
1839, ch. 10, sees. 2, 3.

413. If the death of any person shall be occasioned by the overthrow
or obstrugtion of any railroad car, vehicle or carriage, produced by the
placing of anything or obstruction on any railroad, or by breaking" or
injuring any railroad, or any bridge attached thereto, in violation of
the preceding section, then the person so placing the thing or obstruct-
ing, or breaking or injurying, shall be deemed guilty of murder.

Ibid. sec. 366. 1892, ch. 17, sees. 231A and B. 1892, ch. 397, sec. 231A.

1892, ch. 540. 1914, ch. 442.

414.* Any person who shall cling, climb, jump, step or in any other
way get upon any part of any locomotive, engine or car, or who shall be
on any part of any locomotive, engine or car, whether the same be
freight, passenger, coal or otherwise upon any part of the track of any
railroad within this State unless in so doing he acts in compliance with
the law or by permission under the rules and regulations of the railroad,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any
of the several justices of the peace of the State of Maryland, (except
those justices of the peace in and for the City of -Baltimore who have
not been selected by the proper legal authority to sit at each station
house of said City of Baltimore) or upon conviction thereof before any
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not more than twenty-five
dollars, or be subject to imprisonment in jail or in the House of Cor-
rection for one month, or to both fine and imprisonment in the discre-
tion of the justice of the peace trying the case, or court before which
the case may be tried; provided, however, that if any such person shall
be sentenced to the House of Correction such railroad company or cor-
poration, in all cases where the same is not prohibited either by the
laws of the State of Maryland, or of the United States, which are in
effect at present, or which may be hereafter passed, shall provide free
transportation for such person or persons to said House of Correction,
and also free transportation for not more than one officer in charge of
such person, or persons, to said House of Correction and back to the
place where such person or persons may have been tried and convicted;
or if such person be a minor under eighteen years of age, he may, in the
discretion of the justice of the peace or of the court trying the case, be
committed to any reformatory institution provided by law and author-
ized to receive the same for such period as said justice of the peace or
the said court may determine, not to exceed two years. The several
justices of the peace of the State of Maryland (except those justices of
the peace in and for the City of Baltimore who have not been selected
by proper legal authority to sit at each station house of said City of
Baltimore) shall have in addition to the jurisdiction they now possess
and which may be conferred on them by or under the laws of this State,
jurisdiction to hear and determine all prosecutions or proceedings aris-
ing under the provisions of sections 414 and 415 and pronounce ji'dg-

*This section was repealed as to Garrett County by the act of 1906, ch. 501.