LICENSES. 345

and circumstances; contributory negligence; negligence, proximate and remote.
Kelly v. Huber Baking Co., 145 Md. 334.

Prayers as to rules of road of vehicles approaching intersections of highways;
passing street car turning into intersecting street. Proximate cause. Hopper,
McGaw & Co. v. Kelly, 145 Md. 167.

Provision as to right of way does not apply at intersection of private and
public road; erroneous admission of photograph not ground for reversal under
circumstances. Snibbe v. Robinson, 151 Md. 660.

If street to right for safe distance is clear, plaintiff not judicially negligent in
not providing against possibility of collision with car which would have to be
operated unlawfully; burden of proof of contributory negligence. See notes to
sec. 194. Taxicab Co. v. Ottenritter. 151 Md. 531.

Guest entitled to recover against owner where owner approached intersecting
road without sounding horn and otherwise failing to exercise proper care; no
contributory negligence in case of momentary inattention of driver; question of
speed and care for jury. Pearson v. Lakin. 147 Md. 4.

Right of way at street intersection; contributory negligence for jury. Louis
v. Johnson, 146 Md. 117.

Police officer guilty of contributory negligence in driving at excessive speed,
which was proximate cause of accident. See notes to sec. 193. Sudbrook v.
State, 153 Md. 199.

Portion of ordinance of Baltimore City giving right of way to vehicles of
physicians without providing means of identifying such vehicles, held invalid-
Kidd v. Chissell, 146 Md. 172.

1927, ch. 555. 1929, ch. 566.

209A. All school busses on the rear thereof shall have the words "school
bus" painted or printed in large letters and shall be equipped with signals
or devices to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles showing
from the rear when said vehicles are about to stop, which signals or de-
vices shall be employed whenever such bus is about to stop to take on or
discharge any child or children. All vehicles behind such bus shall stop
when the signal is set, at least ten feet behind the rear of such bus when
it has stopped, and shall remain standing until the bus starts or the stop
signal is released. Any operator of a vehicle who fails to stop when such
bus stops, with the stop signal set, to take on or discharge children, or
otherwise violates the provisions hereof, when such bus actually halts for
the purpose of taking on or discharging children, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Five
Dollars ($5. 00) nor more than Fifty Dollars ($50. 00); provided, how-
ever, that this section shall only apply to Talbot and Frederick Counties.

Traffic Regulations in Baltimore City.

210.

This section held unconstitutional and void under art. 11A of Md. Constitu-
tion. State v. Stewart, 152 Md. 420.

PART VII.

Gasoline Tax.

211.

See notes to secs. 182 and 222.

1927, ch. 327, sec. 212A. 1929, ch. 96.

212A. On and after the first day of April, 1927, the license tax in
respect of motor vehicle fuels, prescribed by this sub-title, shall be increased