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a certificate signed by the president and secretary thereof,
shall have authority and power from time to time, and at any
time the said Board of Park Commissioners see fit, to make
examination of the books, accounts and car fare registers of
any or all of the street railway companies in the City of Balti-
more, for the purpose of satisfying said Board of Park Com-
missioners that returns of the "park tax" are fairly and cor-
rectly made by said companies, and by each and every one
of them; and any street railway company whose officers shall
neglect or refuse, on demand of said Board of Park Commis-
sioners, to permit the said Commissioners or any agent or
agents of said Commissioners authorized in writing as above
prescribed, to at any time inspect its said books, accounts and
car fare registers or any of them, shall forfeit and pay a fine of
one hundred dollars for each and every day it shall so neglect
or refuse to comply with such demand; said penalty to be col-
lected by an action of debt in the name of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore.

799. On default of any of the street railway companies ope-
rating street railway lines within the present City limits, in the
payment of the park tax of nine per centum of the gross receipts
from all street railway lines within the present City limits, for
the term of ten days after the expiration of any quarter, the
company or companies so in default shall pay a penalty at the
rate of thirty per cent, per annum, on the amount due from it, -
for the time it shall continue in default; said penalty to be re-
covered by an action of debt, in the name of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore.

800. If any officer, agent or employee of any street railway
company within the City of Baltimore shall knowingly, wilfully
and corruptly certify to the Board of Park Commissioners a less
sum than is actually due as the park tax of nine per centum of
the gross receipts from the lines of such company within the
City limits, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not more than six
months in jail, or pay a fine of not more than one thousand
dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court.

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