PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1133

State of Maryland or in Baltimore City in which said railroad
has an office or place of business.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 668.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 23 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland, 1912, title "Corporations,"
sub-title '' Public Service Commission,'' to follow immediately
after Section 435, to be known as Section 435-A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new Section be added to Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws, 1912, title "Corporations," sub-title
"Public Service Commission," to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 435, to be known as Section 435-A, to read as follows:

435-A. Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion,
after a hearing, upon its own motion or upon a complaint
made, as provided in this sub-title, that it would be reasonably
advisable and proper to require common carriers to give re-
ceipts for containers of dairy products or of other property or
goods received for transportation within this State, whenever
said containers are intended to be returned; the commission
shall determine the form of said receipt and the proper regu-
lations in respect to the issuing of the same, and the return of
said containers, subject to the provisions of this Section, and
shall so fix and prescribe the same by order to be served upon
every common carrier or other person or corporation to be
bound thereby; and thereafter it shall be the duty of every
such common carrier, or other person or corporation, to ob-
serve and obey each and every requirement of every such order
so served upon it; and upon the day that any such order shall
become operative and effective, the following provisions of this
Section shall become operative and effective and shall remain
so as long and for such time as any such order of the com-
mission is in effect.

Any common carrier issuing a receipt for a container, as
described herein, shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for
any loss, damage or injury to such container caused by it or
by any other person, firm or corporation to whom such con-
tainer may be delivered, and no contract, receipt, rule or regu-