1104 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 386. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

431. 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 466, 467 and 468 of Article 27 of
the Code of Public General Laws, relating to crimes and punishments.

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

An. Code, sec. 387. 1904, sec. 346. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 1.

432. All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running
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 in some conspicuous place appropriate
words, in plain letters, indicating whether it is set apart for white or colored
passengers.

This and the following sections are valid in so far as they apply to passengers
whose journeys begin and end in Maryland, but invalid as to interstate passengers.
The state, however, has power to adopt reasonable police regulations to secure the
safety and comfort of passengers on interstate trains while within its borders. Hart
v. State, 100 Md. 600; State v. Jenkins, 124 Md. 379.
As to railroad corporations, see art. 23, sec. 194, et seq.
See notes to sec. 443.

An. Code, sec. 388. 1904, sec. 347. 1904, ch. 109, see. 2.

433. The railroad companies and corporations and persons aforesaid
shall make no difference or discrimination in quality of or convenience or
accommodation in the cars, coaches or compartments set apart for white
and colored passengers.

An. Code, sec. 389. 1904, sec. 348. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 3.

434. Any railroad company or corporation or person that shall fail,
refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of sections 432 and 433
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon indictment and con-
viction thereof, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 390. 1904, sec. 349. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 4.

435. The conductors and managers on all railroads shall have power
and are hereby required to assign to each white or colored passenger his
or her respective car, coach or compartment, and, should any passenger
refuse to occupy the car, coach or compartment to which he or she may
be assigned by the conductor or managers, shall have the right to refuse
to carry such passenger on his train, and may put such passenger off his
train, and for such refusal or putting off the train neither the conductor,