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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 railroads corporations, see art. 23, sec. 197, et seq.

See notes to sec. 521.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 433. 1912, sec. 388. 1904, sec. 347. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 2. ,

511. 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, 1924, sec. 434. 1912, sec. 389. 1904, sec. 348. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 3.

512. Any railroad company or corporation or person that shall fail,
refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of sections 510 and 511
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, 1924, sec. 435. 1912, sec. 390. 1904, sec. 349. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 4.

513. 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,
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, 1924, sec. 436. 1912, sec. 391. 1904, sec. 350. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 5.

514. Any conductor or manager on any railroad who shall fail or refuse
to perform the duties imposed upon him by section 513 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, 1924, sec. 437. 1912, sec. 392. 1904, see. 351. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 6. 1908,

ch. 292.

515. The following words contained in Section 510, to wit: "and each
compartment of a car or coach divided by a good substantial partition, by