1248 ARTICLE 27

An. Code, 1924, sec. 460. 1912, sec. 414. 1904, sec. 366. 1892, ch. 17, secs. 231A and B.
1892, ch. 397, sec. 231A. 1892, ch. 540. 1914, ch. 442.

537. Any person who shall cling, climb, jump, step or in any other
way get upon any part of any locomotive, engine or car, or who shall be
on any part of any locomotive, engine or car, whether the same be freight,
passenger, coal or otherwise upon any part of the track of any railroad
within this State unless in so doing he acts in compliance with the law or
by permission under the rules and regulations of the railroad, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any of the
several justices of the peace of the State of Maryland, (except those jus-
tices of the peace in and for the City of Baltimore who have not been
selected by the proper legal authority to sit at each station house of said
City of Baltimore) or upon conviction thereof before any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or be
subject to imprisonment in jail or in the House of Correction for one
month, or to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the justice
of the peace trying the case, or court before which the case may be tried;
provided, however, that if any such person shall be sentenced to the House
of Correction such railroad company or corporation, in all cases where the
same is not prohibited either by the laws of the State of Maryland, or of
the United States, which are in effect at present, or which may be here-
after passed, shall provide free transportation for such person or persons
to said House of Correction, and also free transportation for not more than
one officer in charge of such person, or persons, to said House of Correc-
tion and back to the place where such person or persons may have been
tried and convicted; or if such person be a minor under eighteen years of
age, he may, in the discretion of the justice of the peace or of the court
trying the case, be committed to any reformatory institution provided by
law and authorized to receive the same for such period as said justice of
the peace or the said court may determine, not to exceed two years. The
several justices of the peace of the State of Maryland (except those jus-
tices of the peace in and for the City of Baltimore who have not been
selected by proper legal authority to sit at each station house of said City
of Baltimore) shall have in addition to the jurisdiction they now possess
and which may be conferred on them by or under the laws of this State,
jurisdiction to hear and determine all prosecutions or proceedings arising
under the provisions of sections 537 and 538 and pronounce judgment and
sentence therein, and that all Acts and parts of Acts, and all Sections and
parts of Sections of the Code, both of General and Local Laws, and all
amendments of and additions and supplements thereto now in force in the
State of Maryland inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby

repealed.

For a suit for malicious prosecution growing out of an indictment under the act of
1892, ch. 397, see Campbell v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 97 Md. 342,

An. Code, 1924, sec. 461. 1912, sec. 415. 1914, ch. 442.

538. Each and every part and provision of sections 537 and 538 is
hereby declared to be an independent part and provision, and the holding
of any part or provision to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any
cause shall not be deemed to affect any other part or provision thereof.