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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.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That in the event any
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railroad corporation owning, controlling or operating a line
or lines in this State shall refuse or neglect to issue a
mileage book as prescribed in this law, upon demand for the
same and a tender of the price therefor authorized to be
charged in this Act, or in violation of any of its provisions,
shall refuse through any of its conductors or agents to
accept the coupons of such mileage book for transportation
according to the terms of this Act, 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 of the peace of any county in the State of
Maryland or in Baltimore city, in which said railroad cor-
poration 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, this Act shall not apply to
any railroad charted under the laws of this State whose
gross passenger receipts shall not exceed five thousand
dollars annually.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 30, 1906.
CHAPTER 175.
AN ACT to amend the Charter of " The Allegany Hospital
of Allegany County."
WHEREAS, The Allegany Hospital of Allegany county was
duly incorporated under the general laws of Maryland,
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recover dam-
ages.
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authorizing the formation of such corporations, for the pur-
pose of conducting a hospital in the city of Cumberland.
Maryland, for the care and treatment, medically and sur-
gically, of all persons desiring to enter the same, with
capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into
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