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the members of such firm or less than the whole number of the
directors, trustees or managers of such corporation have been
charged or arrested, but such as are charged and have been
arrested may be tried, and those who have not been charged, or
those who, being charged, have not been arrested may, upon
being charged and arrested, be tried. In trials in the Circuit
Court where the cases have been removed to said Court for
jury trial, or in trials upon appeals from justice of the peace,
instead of proceeding to trial upon the warrant issued by the
justice, the State's Attorney may in every such case, before the
trial begins, prepare and file in the same an information or
charge in the nature of an indictment and the case shall be
tried thereunder, and if any person or persons be charged as
the members of any firm or as the directors or managers of any
corporation, and shall deny that they are members of such firm
or are directors, trustees or managers of such corporation, they
shall be required to sustain such denials by evidence; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any
prosecution now depending for violations of the existing laws
of this State, or for offenses against the same committed before
the passage of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts and parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after the first day of May, 1910.

Approved April 15, 1910.

CHAPTER 555.

AN ACT to require the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wilming-
ton Railroad Company to place and maintain a flagman at
the Washington street crossing, near the town of Cambridge,
in Dorchester county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wilmington Rail-
road Company be and it is hereby directed and required to
place and maintain a flagman at Washington street crossing
or station, near Cambridge, in Dorchester county, where the
public county road of said county called Washington street
crosses the tracks of said railroad company at said place, said
flagman to be on duty between the hours of 6.50 o'clock A. M.
and 8.30 P. M. on all days except Sundays, and from 2.30