440 CRIMES AND. PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

ment and sentence therein, and that all Acts and parts of Acts, and all
Sections and parts of Sections of the Code, both of General and Local
Laws, and all amendments of and additions and supplements thereto
now in force in the State of Maryland inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act are hereby repealed.

For a suit for malicious prosecution growing out of an indictment under
the act of 1892, ch. 397, see Campbell v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 97 Md. 342.

1914, ch. 442.

415. Each and every part and provision of sections 414 and 415
is hereby declared to be an independent part and provision, and the
holding of any part or provision to be void, ineffective, or unconstitu-
tional for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other part or pro-
vision thereof.

1904, art. 27, sec. 367. 1902, ch. 150, sec. 231B.

416. Any person, other than the duly authorized employes of any
railroad company, who shall interfere with the signals by which the
movements of the trains of such railroad company are governed by giv-
ing what is known as a train signal to start any train when at rest, or
to stop any train when in motion, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof be sentenced to the house of cor-
rection or the county or city jail for not more than six months.

1910, ch. 503 (p. 94).

417. Whoever without authority unlawfully removes from any rail-
road or railway track, or right of way, over which locomotives, motors
or cars are operated, or from any locomotive, motor or car, the bond-
wires, nuts, bolts, angle-bars, spikes, attachments, fastenings, switch-
stands, locks, feed wires, trolley wires or other appurtenances, or any
part or attachment thereof, or any bonds, nuts, bolts, wires, fastenings,
journal brasses, journal packing or parts thereto attached or belonging,
which are necessary in the use or operation of said railway tracks, loco-
motives, motors or cars, or whoever without authority unlawfully
removes or interferes with any air-brake, air-brake hose or any part of
the air-brake appliances on any locomotive, motor or car, or whoever or
unlawfully has in his possession, any of the aforesaid articles so removed,
shall .upon conviction thereof be imprisoned not more than five years
In the County or City jail or the House of Correction in the discretion
of. the Court.

1912, ch. 97.

418. Whoever shall willfully and- maliciously shoot at or throw or
cause to fall or strike against, into or upon any locomotive, motor,
tender or car used upon any railroad or electric railway in this S'tate,
any wood, stone or other matter or thing, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the
peace or any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each such