§ 66. Checks for baggage. A check, made of some proper substance of
convenient size and form, plainly stamped with numbers, and furnished
with a convenient strap or other appendage for attaching to baggage,
shall be affixed to every piece or parcel of baggage when taken for
transportation for a passenger by the agent or employee of such
corporation, if there is a handle, loop or fixture therefor upon the
piece or parcel of baggage, and a duplicate thereof given to the
passenger or person delivering the same to him. If such check be
refused on demand the corporation shall pay to the passenger the sum of
ten dollars, and no fare shall be collected or received from him; and if
he shall have paid his fare it shall be refunded to him by the conductor
in charge of the train. Such baggage shall be delivered, without
unnecessary delay, to the passenger or any person acting in his behalf,
at the place to which it was to be transported, where the cars usually
stop, or at any other regular intermediate stopping place upon notice to
the baggage-master in charge of baggage on the train of not less than
thirty minutes, upon presentation of such duplicate check to the officer
or agent of the railroad corporation, or of any corporation, over any
portion of whose road it was transported. Bicycles are hereby declared
to be and be deemed baggage for the purposes of this article and shall
be transported as baggage for passengers by railroad corporations and
subject to the same liabilities, and no such passenger shall be required
to crate, cover or otherwise protect any such bicycle; provided,
however, that a railroad corporation shall not be required to transport,
under the provisions of this section, more than one bicycle for a single
person.