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may determine, not to exceed two years. The several justices of the peace of the State of Maryland (except those justices of the peace in and for the City of Baltimore who have not been selected by proper legal authority to sit at each station house of said City of Baltimore) shall have, in addition to the jurisdiction they now possess and which may be conferred on them by or under the laws of this State, jurisdiction to hear and determine all prosecutions or proceedings arising under the provisions of this Act and pronounce judgment and sentence therein, and that all Acts and parts of Acts, and all sections and parts of sections of the Code, both of General and Local Laws, and all amendments of and additions and supplements thereto now in force in the State of Maryland inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

1914, ch. 442, sec. 366A.

415. Each and every part and provision of this Act is hereby declared to be an independent part and provision, and the holding of any part or provision to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any cause, shall not be deemed to affect any other part or provision thereof.

1902, ch. 150, sec. 231в.

416. Any person, other than the duly authorized employees of any railroad company, who shall interfere with the signals by which the movements of the trains of such railroad company are governed by giving what is known as a train signal to start any train when at rest, or to stop any train when in motion, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be sentenced to the House of Correction or the county or city jail for not more than six months.

1910, ch. 503, sec. 367A.

417. Whoever, without authority, unlawfully removes from any railroad or railway track, or right of way, over which locomotives, motors or cars are operated or from any locomotives, motor or car, the bondwires, nuts, bolts, anglebars, spikes, attachments, fastenings, switch-stands, locks, feed wires, trolley wires or other appurtenances, or any part or attachment thereof, or any bonds, nuts, bolts, wires, fastenings,

journal brasses, journal packing or parts thereto attached or belonging, which are necessary in the use or operation of said railway tracks, locomotives, motors or cars, or whoever, without authority, unlawfully removes or interferes with any airbrake, air brake hose or any part of the air-brake appliance on any locomotive, motor car, or whoever or unlawfully has in his possession, any of the aforesaid articles so removed, shall upon conviction thereof be imprisoned not more than five years in the county or city jail or in the House of Correction in the discretion of the Court.

1912, ch. 97, sec. 367в, p. 202.

418. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at or throw or cause to fall or strike against, into or upon any loco. motive, motor, tender or car used upon any railroad or electric railway in this State, any wood, stone or other matter or thing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace, or any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each such offense, or be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year in the county or city jail or the House of Correction, in the discretion of such justice of the peace or Court, or if such person be a minor under sixteen years of age, he may, in the discretion of such justice of the peace or Court, be committed for not more than two years to any reformatory institution, provided by law and authorized to receive minors so convicted.

1912, ch. 97, sec. 367c, p. 202.

419. Whoever shall throw from any window, door or transom of any passenger car, including dining, cafe, smoking, sleeping and private cars, while the same is in motion, any bottle or other article of glass, wood, metal or stone, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars before any justice of the peace or any Court of competent jurisdiction, nor more than one hundred dollars for each such offense, or be subject to imprisonment for not more than six months in the city or county jail or the House of Correction, in the discretion of such justice of the peace or Court.

Telegraphs and Telephones.

1904, art. 27, sec. 389. 1888, art. 27, sec. 252. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 135. 1900, ch. 610.

441. Any person connected with any telegraph or telephone corporation, company or individuals operating said lines for profit in this State, either as clerk, operator, messenger, or in any other capacity, who shall wilfully divulge the contents or nature of the contents of any private communication entrusted to him for transmission or delivery, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same, shall, on conviction before any Court having criminal jurisdiction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer imprisonment in the jail in the county or city where such conviction shall be had for a term of not more than three months, or shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

Processes Against Corporations in Criminal Cases.

1906, ch. 403.

728. When any indictment shall be found or information filed by the Attorney-General in this State for violation of its laws against any corporation, joint stock company or association incorporated under its laws, or against any incorporation not incorporated under its laws, but deemed to hold and exercise franchises herein, or any joint stock company or association doing business in this State, it shall and may be lawful for the Attorney-General or prosecuting attorney for the State to cause a summons or notice to be directed to the said corporation, joint stock company or association, in its corporate name, to appear at the said Court to answer to such indictment or information, and such process may be served in the same manner as provided for service of process in civil suits mentioned in sections numbered 411 and 412 of Article 23 of Poe's Code of Public General Laws of 1904, entitled "Corporations," sub-title "Process."

1906, ch. 403.

729. When the sheriff or other officer shall return such summons or notice "summoned" or "served," the said corporation, joint stock company or association shall be considered as in Court and as appearing to said indictment or information, and

the Court shall order the clerk to enter an appearance for said corporation, joint stock company or association, and indorse the plea of not guilty on said indictment or information, and further proceedings may then be had thereon, in the same manner as if the said corporation, joint stock company or association had appeared and pleaded not guilty; and if the said corporation, joint stock company or association shall be convicted on said indictment or information, the said Court may proceed to pass judgment thereon and cause process of execu tion to be issued to the sheriff of the county against the goods and chattels, or lands and tenements of the said corporation, joint stock company or association for the amount of the fine and costs which may be awarded against them, in the same manner as on a judgment in a civil action; and the said sheriff shall proceed to sell the goods and chattels or lands and tenements of the said corporation, joint stock company or association, on the said execution in the same manner as on executions issued in a civil suit.

ARTICLE XXXIII-A.
EMINENT DOMAIN.*

Regulating the Procedure for the Acquisition of Property for Public Use by Ccndemnation.†

1912, ch. 117. 1904, ch. 463, sec. 1.

1. The proceedings for the acquisition of private property for public use shall be as follows.

* See Constitution, Article 3, section 40; Baltimore vs. Megary, 122 Md. 20. See Article 91 as to power of condemnation by the State Roads Commission.

See Section 34 of Article 91 as to power of condemnation by State Roads Commission, p. 526.

This Article consists of the Act of 1914, ch. 463, which, by a secondary section, not herein incorporated, expressly reserves the rights created prior to its passage and the terms of any law enacted during the 1914 session of the Legislature to carry out the provisions of section 40 of Article 3 of the Constitution. Baltimore vs. Kane, 125 Md. 135. See City and Southern R. R. Co. and W. W. & G. R. R. Co., 122 Md. 655, 658: Baltimore vs. Forest Park Co., 123 Md. 290. 294. In Pittsnogle vs. Western Md. R. R. Co., 123 Md. 667, the Court held that Chapter 117 of the Acts of 1912. the new Eminent Domain Act. did not repeal existing provisions of the law relating to Eminent Domain, unless expressly inconsistent therewith, and in German Lutheran Church vs. Baltimore, 123 Md. 142. the Court referred with approval to the Baltimore City Charter (Art. 4, sec. 6. of the Code of Public Local Laws), wherein the City may by procedure set forth in its charter condemn land for the purpose of opening, etc., streets.

1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 2.

The proceedings shall be begun by the filing of a petition in the Circuit Court for the county in which the property sought to be condemned is situated, on the law side thereof, or in one of the law Courts of Baltimore City, if such property is situated in Baltimore City, by the State, Municipal, or other corporation, commission, board, body, or person seeking to have the property condemned, and against the owner or owners thereof, and the husbands and wives of married owners.

In case any owner or owners is or are not known, he or they may be described in such petition as the unknown owner or owners, or the unknown heir or heirs of a deceased owner. The petition shall set forth a description of the property sought to be acquired, sufficient for identification, a statement of the purpose for which same is sought to be condemned, and that the petitioner is unable to agree with the owner or owners thereof, or that one or more of said owners is or are under some legal disability to contract, unknown or non-resident, according to the facts; and the said petition shall contain a prayer that the said property may be condemned.*

1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 3.

2. Upon the filing of said petition, the Court or any judge thereof shall pass an order directing a summons to issue for the defendants, to be served in the same manner as a summons in actions at law, and to be returned by some day to be named in said order, not less than ten days nor more than twenty days from the day of the filing of said petition. If any defendant be not summoned before the return day of said summons, the summons may be renewed from time to time, as often as the Court in its discretion may think proper; or if any defendant is non-resident or unknown, or is returned non est, the Court may order the sheriff to set up a copy of the summons for such defendants upon the property, and a notice to be published once a week for three successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the county where such property is situated, and, if the proceedings be in Baltimore City, in one daily newspaper published in said City, requiring such de

* Hyattsville vs. Washington, W. & G. R. R., 120 Md. 128.

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