ACT. 27. ] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 89

and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars
or coaches by electricity, running twenty miles beyond the
limits of any incorporated city or town of the State for the
transportation of passengers, are hereby authorized and re-
quired to designate separate seats for white and colored pas-
sengers, without any difference in the quality of or convenience
or accommodation of the seats in such cars or coaches. The
ordinary seat for two persons shall be deemed a separate seat
within the meaning of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the railway companies and
corporations and persons aforesaid, shall make no discrimina-
tion in the quality of or convenience or accommodation in the
seats in the cars, coaches or compartments, and no white person
shall force himself or be permitted to force himself or herself
in a seat designated for a colored person, and no colored person
shall force himself or herself, or be permitted to force himself
or herself in a seat designated for a white person.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the conductors or managers
on all railways shall have power, and are hereby required to
assign to each white or colored person, his or her respective
seat in said car, coach or compartment, and should any passen-
ger refuse to occupy the seat to which he or she may be assigned
by the conductor or manager, said conductor or manager shall
have the right to refuse to carry such passenger on his car or
coach, and may put such passenger off his car or coach, and
for such refusal or putting off the car or coach neither the con-
ductor, manager or railway company or corporation or person
owning or operating the same shall be liable to damages in any
court, and the passenger so refusing to occupy the designated
seat to which he or she may be assigned, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on indictment and conviction thereof,
shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail
not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the
court, for each offense.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any conductor or manager
on any railway who shall upon request, refuse to perform the
duties imposed upon him by this Act, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof
shall be fined not more than twenty dollars for each offense.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That when the seats in any car,
coach or compartment shall all be occupied, but not filled, and
the increased number of passengers can not be accommodated
with separate seats, the conductor or manager in charge of such
car or coach is hereby authorized to assign passengers of the