CORPORATIONS 955

State or municipal governments, or of the property to or from fairs and
expositions for exhibit thereat; or the transportation, free, of any property
as is provided by law. Nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to pro-
hibit the interchange of free or reduced transportation between common
carriers of or for their officers, agents, employees, attorneys and surgeons
and their families, nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying
passengers or property free with the object of providing relief in cases of
general epidemic, pestilence or other calamitous visitation; nor to pro-
hibit any common carrier from transporting persons or property as incident
to or connected with contracts for construction, operation or maintenance,
and to the extent only that such free transportation is provided for in the
contract for such work; nor to prevent any common carrier from transport-
ing children under five years of age free.

Provided, further, that nothing in this sub-title shall prevent the issuance
of mileage, excursion, school commutation or commutation passenger
tickets, or half-fare tickets for the transportation of children under twelve
years of age, or joint interchangeable mileage tickets, with special privi-
leges as to the amount of free baggage that may be carried under mileage
tickets of one hundred miles or more. But before any common carrier,
subject to the provision of this sub-title, shall issue any such mileage, ex-
cursion, school commutation, commutation passenger tickets, half-fare
tickets, or joint interchangeable mileage ticket, with special privileges as
aforesaid, it shall file with the commission copies of the tariffs of rates,
fares or charges on which such tickets are to be based, together with the
specifications of the amount of free baggage permitted to be carried under
such joint interchangeable mileage ticket, in the same manner as common
carriers are required to do with regard to other rates by this sub-title.

This section applies only between carriers and users of their facilities; no applica-
tion to commissions paid by taxi company to third persons. Mundon v. Taxicab Co.,
151 Md. 455.

Cited but not construed in Ruark v. Engineers' Union, 157 Md. 585.

An employee of an express company doing business along the line of a railroad may
lawfully accept gratuitous passage on the railroad in accordance with the express terms
of this section. Held that a demurrer to a declaration for personal injuries to such
employee while on a train, should have been overruled. Smith v. Northern Central
Ry. Co., 119 Md. 484.

Cited in construing contract for sale of electricity. Cons. Gas. E. L. & Power Co. v.
United Rys. & El. Co., 76F (2d) 535.

See notes to sec. 376.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 366. 1912, sec. 428A. 1912, ch. 734.

374. Any person or persons or any corporation running or using steam-
boats in the excursion business from the city of Baltimore to any place or
places within the State of Maryland shall be permitted to give transporta-
tion between said places in exchange for services rendered in advertising
said excursion business. This section to apply only during the months of
May, June, July and August of each and every year.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 367. 1912, sec. 429. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 17 (p. 360).

375. No common carrier or any officer or agent thereof, or any person
acting for or employed by it, shall assist, suffer or permit any person or cor-
poration to obtain transportation for any passenger, freight or property
between points within this State at less than the rates then established and
in force in accordance with the schedules filed and published in accordance
with the provisions of this sub-title and the order of the commission, by
means of false billing, false classification, false weight or weighing, or