MISCELLANEOUS BILLS. 371

PENALTIES.

SEC. 28. Every common carrier, railroad corporation, street
railroad corporation and other corporation subject to the pro-
visions of this Act, and all officers and agents of any common
carrier, railroad corporation and street railroad corporation,
and of any other corporation subject to the provisions of this
Act, shall obey,' observe and comply with every order made by
the Commission, under authority of this Act, so long as the

same shall be and remain in force. Any common carrier, rail-
road corporation or street railroad corporation, which shall
violate any provisions of this Act, or which fails, omits or neg-
lects to obey, observe or comply with any order, or any direc-
tion or requirement of the Commission, shall forfeit to the
State of Maryland a sum not to exceed the sum of five thousand
dollars for each and every offense; every violation of any such

order or direction or requirement, or of this Act, shall be a
separate and distinct offense, and, in case of a continuing viola-
tion, every day's continuance thereof shall be and be deemed to
be a separate and distinct offense.

Every person, officer and agent of any such common carrier,
railroad corporation or street railroad corporation who shall
violate, or who procures, aids or abets any violation by any
such common carrier or corporation of any provision of this
Act, or who shall fail to obey, observe and comply with any
order of the Commission, or any provision of an order of the

Commission, or who procures, aids or abets any such common
carrier in its failure to obey, observe and comply with any such
order or provision, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Whenever the Commission shall be of the opinion that a

common carrier, railroad corporation or street railroad corpo-
ration, or other corporation, subject to its supervision, is
failing or omitting, or about to fail or omit to do anything re-
quired of it by law, or by order of the Commission, or is doing
anything, or about to do anything, or permitting anything or
about to permit anything to be done, contrary to or in viola
tion of law or of any order of this Commission, it shall direct
the General Counsel to the Commission to commence an action
or proceeding before one of the Judges of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City or in the Circuit Court of the county in
which such corporation has its principal place of business, or
carries on its business in the name of the Commission, for the
purpose of having such violations or threatened violations

stopped and prevented, either by mandamus or injunction.

Counsel to the Commission shall thereupon begin such action
or proceeding by a petition to and in any of the said courts, as
the case may require, alleging the violation or threatened viola-