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deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on indictment in any court having
jurisdiction, and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five dol-
lars nor more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail not less than thirty
days, in the discretion of the court, for each offense; and such passenger
may be ejected from the said boat by the officers thereof at any wharf or
landing place of said boat, and, if necessary, such assistance may be in-
voked by the person in charge of said boat as he may require to eject such
passenger; and provided, that in case of such ejectment neither the cap-
tain nor other person in charge of such boat, nor the steamboat company
or corporation or person owning or operating such boat shall be liable in
damages in any court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 442. 1912, sec. 397. 1908, ch. 617.

520. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning
and operating steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay, between the city of
Baltimore and points on said bay or its tributaries, to provide separate
toilet or retiring rooms, and separate sleeping cabins on their respective
steamboats, on or before the first day of July, in the year nineteen hun-
dred and eight, for white and colored passengers, under a penalty of a fine
of fifty dollars for each and every day said steamboats may be operated
upon the waters aforesaid in violation of this section, and the provisions
of the four preceding sections shall apply in the assigning of passengers
to the use of the toilet, or retiring rooms, and the sleeping quarters set
apart for the respective white and colored passengers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 443. 1912, sec. 398. 1908, ch. 248.

521. Conductors or managers of all railway companies and corpora-
tions, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by electricity,
running twenty miles beyond the limits of any incorporated city or town
of the State for the transportation of passengers, are hereby authorized
and required to designate separate seats for white and colored passengers,
without any difference in the quality of or convenience or accommodation
of the seats in such cars or coaches. The ordinary seat for two persons shall
be deemed a separate seat within the meaning of sections 521 to 526.

Act of 1908, ch. 248, will be construed to apply to intrastate passengers only; hence
it is constitutional. When an exception in a statute and in Constitution need not
be negatived in indictment. Generally an indictment describing an offence in language
of statute is sufficient. State v. Jenkins, 124 Md. 378.

A passenger from Annapolis, Md., to Washington, D. C., held to be an interstate
passenger, though he had to change cars at Baltimore; this section, et seq., held inap-
plicable. Damages for eviction of passenger. See notes to sec. 510. Washington, etc.,
R. Co. v. Waller, 289 Fed. (Ct. Apps. D. C.) 598.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 444. 1912, sec. 399. 1908, ch. 248.

522. The railway companies and corporations and persons aforesaid,
shall make no discrimination in the quality of or convenience or accom-
modation in the seats in the cars, coaches or compartments, and no white
person shall force himself or be permitted to force himself or herself in a
seat designated for a colored person, and no colored person shall force
himself or herself, or be permitted to force himself or herself in a seat
designated for a white person.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 445. 1912, sec. 400. 1908, ch. 248.

523. The conductors or managers on all railways shall have power,
and are hereby required to assign to each white or colored person, his or