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the entrances or approaches to such bridge or culvert, or at a
greater rate of speed than that specified on said signboard,
without a permit in writing from the owner or authorities in
control of said bridge or culvert, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each such offence, such fine to be paid to the owner of or
public body having control over said bridge or culvert; in addi-
tion to which the owner or person in control of such vehicle
shall be liable to the owner or authorities in control of said
bridge or culvert for all damages which may be done the same
by the violation of the regulation so prescribed, and shall have
no redress against the owner or authorities having control over
said bridge or culvert in the event of the breaking down or giv-
ing away of the same and consequent injury to such vehicle.
Any owner of any such bridge or culvert, or public officer or
board, or member of such board, or employee or agent thereof,
who shall cause any such signboard to be posted without the
authority in writing from the chief engineer of the Good Roads
Commission as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor, and upon conviction be fined not less than twenty-five
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. In any trial of any
person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of
this section oral proof of the existence of such signboard posted
as herein provided, and its contents, shall be accepted as prima
facie evidence of the validity of the regulation thereon pre-
scribed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 373.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 104 of
Chapter 409 of the Acts of 1910, entitled "An Act to appro-
priate certain sums of money to the support of sundry
schools and charitable institutions in the State of Maryland,
etc."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 104 of Chapter 409 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1910 be, and the same is hereby, repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows: