26 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23.

of said mileage book, on the passenger 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 by the conductor of such railroad, and
such conductor shall not detach from such mileage book more
coupons than the number of miles traveled, and such mileage
book shall entitle the purchaser thereof and the parties entitled
to use the same to the same rights and privileges in respect to
the transportation of themselves and baggage or property to
which the holders of the highest class ticket issued by such
corporation is entitled.

1906, ch. 174, sec. 4.

300 I. There shall be no stipulation, agreement or condition
required by said railroad corporation before it will issue such
mileage books, that said mileage books shall become forfeited
or null and void by the accidental loss of the same, and said
loss shall not render the same forfeited or null and void; and
there shall be no limitation of time in which such mileage
books shall be good, but the same shall be good until all
coupons attached thereto have been used.

Ibid. sec. 5.

300 J. In the event any railroad corporation owning, con-
trolling or operating a line or lines in this State shall refuse or
neglect to issue a mileage book as prescribed in the four pre-
ceding sections, upon demand for the same and a tender of the
price therefor authorized to be charged therein, or in violation
of any of its provisions, shall refuse through any of its con-
ductors or agents to accept the coupons of such mileage book
for transportation according to the terms of such 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 to accept said coupons, which damages shall be recov-
erable before any justice of the peace of any county in the
State of Maryland or in Baltimore city, in which said railroad
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, said sections shall not apply to