770 ARTICLE 23.

more than the sum of twenty dollars; and such mileage books shall be kept
for sale by such railroad corporations at every ticket office of such corpor-
ations authorized to do business for them, and such mileage book or books
shall be delivered to the applicant immediately upon application therefor,
and the payment of the price legally demandable therefor.

As to tariff schedules, see sec. 364; as to the determination of when rates are just
and reasonable, see sec. 373; as to freight rates on inter-state traffic, see sec. 384.
See also sec. 210.

An. Code, sec. 328. 1906, ch. 174.

266. The purchaser of said mileage book, or any member of the family
of said purchaser or purchasers, if a firm, his or their employees, shall
be entitled to travel, on the presentation of said mileage book, on the
passenger trains of the railroad owned, controlled or operated by such cor-
poration issuing said book and all the lines thereof, for the number of
miles equal to the coupons detached by the conductor of such railroad, and
such conductor shall not detach from such mileage book more coupons
than the number of miles traveled, and such mileage book shall entitle the
purchaser thereof and the parties entitled to use the same to the same rights
and privileges in respect to the transportation of themselves and baggage
or property to which the holders of the highest class ticket issued by such
corporation is entitled.

An. Code, sec. 329. 1906, ch. 174.

267. There shall be no stipulation, agreement or condition required by
said railroad corporation before it will issue such mileage books, that said
mileage books shall become forfeited or null and void by the accidental loss
of the same, and said loss shall not render the same forfeited or null and
void; and there shall be no limitation of time in which such mileage books
shall be good, but the same shall be good until all coupons attached thereto
have been used.

An. Code, sec. 330. 1906, ch. 174.

268. In the event any railroad corporation owning, controlling or
operating a line or lines in this State shall refuse or neglect to issue a mile-
age book as prescribed in this law, upon demand for the same and a tender
of the price therefor authorized to be charged in sections 264 and 265, or
in violation of any of the provisions of sections 264 to 268, shall refuse
through any of its conductors or agents to accept the coupons of such mile-
age book for transportation according to the terms of sections 264-268,
then the person to whom such refusal is made shall be entitled to recover as
liquidated damages from said railroad corporation the sum of fifty dollars
for each refusal or neglect to issue said book or to accept said coupons,
which damages shall be recoverable before any justice of the peace of any
county in the State of Maryland or in Baltimore city, in which said railroad
corporation has an office or place of business. The same right of appeal from
the decision of the justice of the peace is hereby reserved to either party,
as in other civil cases before a justice of the peace; provided, sections