ART. 27] PASSENGERS—WHITE AND COLORED—PERJURY. 895 .

or eating, set apart or assigned by the captain, purser or other
officer in command of such boat, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on indictment in any court having jurisdic-
tion, and conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five
dollars 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 invoked 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 captain nor other person in charge of such boat, nor the
steamboat company or corporation or person owning or operat-
ing such boat shall be liable in damages in any court.

Perjury.

1888, art. 27, sec. 226. 1860, art 30, sec. 155. 1692, ch 16, sec. 4. 1809, ch. 138,
sec. 8. 1828, ch. 165, sec. 6. 1858, ch. 414, sec. 10.

356. An oath or affirmation, if made wilfully and falsely in
any of the following cases, shall be deemed perjury: first, in
all cases where false swearing would be perjury at common
law; secondly, in all affidavits required by law to be taken;
thirdly, all affidavits to accounts or claims made for the purpose
of inducing any court or officer to pass such accounts or claims ;
fourthly, all affidavits required to be made to reports and returns
made to the general assembly or any officer of the government.

Deckard v. State, 38 Md. 201. State v. Bixler, 62 Md. 358. State v.
Floto, 81 Md. 601.

1894, ch. 262, sec. 228 A.

367. Any person who shall make oath or affirmation to two
contradictory statements, each of them in one of the cases
enumerated in section 356 and in either case shall make oath
or affirmation wilfully and falsely, shall be deemed guilty of
perjury; and to sustain an indictment under this section it
shall be sufficient to allege and prove that one of the said two
contradictory statements is or must be false and wilful, without
specifying which one.

1888, art. 27, sec. 227. 1860, art. 30, sec. 156, 1692, ch. 16, sec. 2.
1894, ch. 262.

358. Any person who shall procure another to make a false
oath or affirmation in any of the cases embraced in the two