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other zone), to be good over either of said two zones for one year, from
date of purchase and for travel in either direction, the same to be bound
and sold in books of forty (40) tickets at the price of one dollar ($1.00)
for each of said books, each of said tickets, when presented with the cover
in which it was sold, to be good for the transportation of the purchaser or
any member of his or her family or household over said zone number two
or zone number three, or any number of persons of such family or house-
hold traveling together may use tickets from the same book in payment of
fares over either or both of said two zones; provided, that nothing con-
tained in this Act shall be construed to prevent said railway company from
hauling passengers free of charge or to grant them special and lower cash,
commutation, or other rates over that portion of its railway lying between
the District of Columbia and Somerset Heights. And provided further
that said railway company, shall at all times have on sale at some conven-
ient place and during reasonable hours in the town of Rockville, and at
such other place as it may see fit, the books of commutation and family
tickets provided for in this Act.

1910, ch. 220, sec. 3. 1912, ch. 424, sec. 4.

731. For any violation of the preceding sections the said Washington
and Rockville Railway Company shall be subject to a fine of one hundred
dollars ($100) for each violation thereof, and other costs, upon conviction
by any justice of the peace of said Montgomery County, the said fine to be
paid to the treasurer of said county.

1910, ch. 220, sec. 4. 1912, ch. 424, sec. 5.

732. Said railway company shall maintain or have at the county seat
of said Montgomery County an officer or attorney fully authorized and
empowered to accept service of summons for said railway company, of
which due notice shall be given by publication in one or more county news-
papers of such selections or designation to accept service, or any change
thereof, and in case of failure of said railway company to comply with the
foregoing provisions of this section at any time service of summons upon
any conductor or motorman of said railway company shall be sufficient
for the imposition of the aforesaid fine at a trial and conviction in due
course of law provided; and it is hereby declared that each and every pro-
vision of this Act depends upon and is in consideration of each and every
other provision thereof, and that this Act must be read and construed as
a whole; and provided further, that in view of the mutual and reciprocal
advantages provided herein, both to the traveling public, and to the said
railway company, no statute of the State of Maryland in general terms
shall be construed to modify or repeal this Act, in whole or in part, unless
this Act and the special provisions thereof sought to be effected shall be
specifically named in such statute.

1912, ch. 424, sec. 6.

733. Nothing in this act contained is intended or shall be taken or
construed as relieving the said corporation from the provision of Chapter