1016 ARTICLE 25

An. Code, 1924, sec. 36. 1912, sec. 35. 1904, sec. 34. 1888, sec. 34. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 9.

37. In all cases where the appeal is not sustained the appellant shall
pay the costs, and in all other cases the court shall direct the costs to be
paid in such manner and by such party as it may deem equitable and just;
and the county commissioners shall be the appellee in such appeal, and
shall levy as part of the county charges, and pay whatever costs and charges
are so ordered to be paid by them, and all incidental expenses not therein
provided for.

Cited .but not construed in Miles v. Stevenson, 80 Md. 367.

See notes to sec. 22.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 37. 1912, sec. 35A. 1912, ch. 372.

38. The County Commissioners of the several counties of the State,
the Highways Commission thereof or other public boards or officers having
control over the public bridges and culverts of said counties, the State
Roads Commission in the case of bridges and culverts under its control,
the public boards or officers having control over bridges between adjacent
counties, turnpike or plank road companies, and bridge companies or other
individuals or corporations owning or controlling private or quasi public
bridges used by the public for compensation or otherwise, shall have the
power and right to regulate the weight of wagons, trucks, road engines,
road rollers, traction engines, threshing machines or other vehicles of any
kind passing over such bridges and culverts, and the rate of speed of such
vehicles while passing over the same, by posting and maintaining con-
spicuously at both ends of or entrances to said bridges or culverts sign-
boards with lettering not less than three inches in height, worded as fol-
lows, to wit: "Warning—Weight not to exceed (here insert numerals)
pounds. Speed not to exceed (here insert numerals) miles per hour,"
which shall be taken to mean that no vehicle of any kind, as above enu-
merated, weighing, with or without any load which may be in or upon the
same, more than the number of pounds specified on said signboard, shall
pass or be drawn, driven, propelled or in any other manner taken over said
bridge or culvert, and that no such vehicle of any kind as above enumer-
ated shall pass or be drawn, driven, propelled or in any other manner
taken over said bridge or culvert at a greater rate of speed than that speci-
fied on said signboard; provided, however, that no such sign or signs shall
be posted as above without authority in writing from the chief engineer of
the State Roads Commission having first been had and obtained; and it is
hereby made the duty of said chief engineer of the State Roads Commis-
sion, upon receiving a request for such authority, to cause an investigation
of the carrying capacity of such bridge or culvert and to furnish to the
applicant his authority in writing to erect and maintain signboards as
aforesaid. Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation or other per-
son, whether the owner of such vehicle, the person in charge and control
over the same, or employee or agent of any such, who shall draw, drive,
propel or in any other manner take or cause to be taken, drawn, driven
or propelled over any such bridge or culvert posted as aforesaid any wagon,
truck, road engine, road roller, traction engine, threshing machine or other
vehicle of any kind, weighing, with or without any load which may be in
or upon the same, more than the number of pounds specified on the sign-
board so erected at 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