904 ARTICLE 23

An. Code, 1924, sec. 268. 1912, sec. 330. 1906, ch. 174.

269. In the event any railroad corporation owning, controlling or
operating a line or lines in this State shall refuse or neglect to issue a mile-
age book as prescribed in this law, upon demand for the same and a tender
of the price therefor authorized to be charged in sections 265 and 266, or
in violation of any of the provisions of sections 265 to 269, shall refuse
through any of its conductors or agents to accept the coupons of such mile-
age book for transportation according to the terms of sections 265-269,
then the person to whom such refusal is made shall be entitled to recover as
liquidated damages from said railroad corporation the sum of fifty dollars
for each refusal or neglect to issue said book or to accept said coupons,
which damages shall be recoverable before any justice o'f the peace of any
county in the State of Maryland or in Baltimore City, in which said rail-
road corporation has an office or place of business. The same right of appeal
from the decision of the justice of the peace is hereby reserved to either
party, as in other civil cases before a justice of the peace; provided, sec-
tions 265-269 shall not apply to any railroad chartered under the laws of
this State whose gross passenger receipts shall not exceed five thousand dol-
lars annually.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 269. 1912, sec. 330A. 1914, ch. 667.

270. Every railroad corporation owning, controlling or operating a
railroad in this State shall keep for sale mileage books, good for one thou-
sand or less miles of travel, and all such mileage books shall entitle the
holder or bearer thereof, or any person or persons accompanying said holder
or bearer, to travel, on the presentation of said mileage book on the passen-
ger trains of the railroad owned, controlled or operated by such corporation
issuing said book and all the lines thereof for the number of miles equal to
the coupons detached or cancelled by the conductor of such railroad, and
such conductor shall not detach or cancel from such mileage book more
miles than the number of miles traveled, and such mileage book shall entitle
the holder or bearer thereof and the parties entitled to use the same to
the same rights and privileges in respect to the transportation of them-
selves and baggage or property to which the holders of the highest class
ticket issued by such corporation is entitled.

See sec. 265, et seq.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 270. 1912, sec. 330B. 1914, ch. 667.

271. In the event of any railroad corporation owning, controlling or
operating a line or lines in this State shall refuse or neglect to issue a
mileage book granting all the privileges prescribed in this law upon the
demand for the same and a tender therefor of the prevailing price charged
by said railroad corporation for any other class of mileage books at time of
such demand, or in violation of any of the provisions of sections 270-271
shall refuse through any of its conductors or agents to accept the coupons of
such mileage book for transportation according to the terms of said sections,
then the person to whom such refusal is made shall be entitled to recover as
liquidated damages from said railroad corporation the sum of fifty dollars
for each refusal or neglect to issue said book or accept said coupons, which
damages shall be recoverable before any justice of the peace of any county
in the State of Maryland or in Baltimore City in which said railroad has
an office or place of business.