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dollars for the second offence, and a fine of one hundred dollars, or
thirty days in jail, for subsequent violations. Any justice of the peace
having criminal jurisdiction shall have full authority to try and deter-
mine all violations of said act as aforesaid.

This section held to be in conflict with, and to be repealed by, the act of
1912, chapter 777 (approved later), which took away from the police jus-
tices of Baltimore City the power to try violators of the law relating to
licenses, save in certain cases. Ruggles v. State, 120 Md. 558.
See section 157.

1912, ch. 133, sec. 141.

163. No driver or operator of any motor car, taxi-cab, automobile
or motor truck shall use any cut out, fitting or other apparatus or
device which will allow the exhaust gases from the engine of the motor
car to escape into the atmosphere without first passing through a
silence, expansion chamber or other contrivance suitable and sufficient
for reducing as far as may reasonably be practicable the noise which
would otherwise be caused by the escape of the said gases; provided
that this regulation shall apply only to a motor car propelled by an
internal combustion engine and shall not extend to a motorcycle and
only within the limits of municipalities, incorporated cities and towns
and villages in the State of Maryland.