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manager nor railroad company or corporation, or person owning or oper-
ating the same shall be liable for damages in any court; and the passenger
so refusing to occupy the car, coach or compartment to which he or she may
be assigned by the conductor or manager shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and, on indictment and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less
than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail not less
than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 391. 1904, sec. 350. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 5.

436. Any conductor or manager on any railroad who shall fail or refuse
to perform the duties imposed upon him by section 435 shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon indictment and conviction thereof,
shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than fifty dollars
for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 392. 1904, sec. 351. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 6. 1908, ch. 292.

437. The following words contained in Section 432, to wit: " and each
compartment of a car or coach divided by a good substantial partition, by
a door or place of exit from each division shall be deemed a separate car or
coach within the meaning of this section," shall not apply to the counties
of Prince George's, Charles, St. Mary's, Calvert and Anne Arundel, so that
in said counties there shall be separate cars or coaches for the travel and
transportation of the white and colored passengers on the respective lines of
railroad, and a car divided by a compartment shall not be deemed a separate
car or coach within the meaning of this section, but a combination car, not
over one-third of which is used for baggage or mail, for the purposes of this
section shall be deemed a separate car, and each separate car or coach shall
have in some conspicuous place, both outside and inside, appropriate words
and plain letters indicating whether it is set apart for white or colored
passengers; provided, this section shall not apply to trains making no
scheduled intermediate service stops between their termini.

An. Code, sec. 393. 1904, sec. 352. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 7.

438. The provisions of the six preceding sections shall not apply to
employes of railroads, or to persons employed as nurses, or to officers in
charge of prisoners, whether the said prisoners are white or colored, or
both white and colored, or to the prisoners in their custody, nor shall the
same apply to the transportation of passengers in any caboose car attached
to a freight train, nor to parlor nor sleeping cars, nor through express
trains that do no local business.

An. Code, sec. 394. 1904, sec. 353. 1904, ch. 110, sec. 1.

439. It shall be the duty of any captain, purser or other officer in com-
mand of any steamboat carrying passengers and plying in the waters
within the jurisdiction of the State of Maryland to assign white and col-
ored passengers on said boats to the respective locations they are to occupy
as passengers while on said boat; and it shall be the duty of said captain,