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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, 1924, sec. 438. 1912, sec. 393. 1904, sec. 352. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 7.

516. 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, 1924, sec. 439. 1912, sec. 394. 1904, sec. 353. 1904, ch. 110, sec. 1.

517. 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,
purser or other officer in command to separate, as far as the construction
of his boat and due consideration for the comfort of the passengers will
permit, the white and colored passengers on said boat in the sitting, sleep-
ing and eating apartments; provided, however, that no discrimination shall
be made in the quality and convenience of accommodation afforded passen-
gers in said locations; and provided, that this section and the two succeed-
ing sections shall not apply to nurses or attendants traveling with their
employers, nor to officers in charge of prisoners, whether the said prisoners
are white or colored, or both white and colored, or to prisoners in their
custody.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 440. 1912, sec. 395. 1904, sec. 354. 1904, ch. 110, sec. 2.

518. Any captain, purser or other officer in command of any steamboat
as aforesaid who shall refuse to carry out the provisions of section 517 shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment in any court
having jurisdiction, 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. 441. 1912, sec. 396. 1904, sec. 355. 1904, ch. 110, sec. 3.

519. Any passenger traveling on any steamboat plying in the waters
within the jurisdiction of this State who shall wilfully refuse to occupy
the location, whether of sitting, sleeping or eating, set apart or assigned
by the captain, purser or other officer in command of such boat, shall be