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marker or tag; the name and address of the registered owner; and the
name and address of the applicant for said permit. Such application must
be subscribed and sworn to and when filed with the said Commissioner
must be accompanied by the payment of two dollars ($2.00) to cover the
estimated average costs incident to the inquiry hereinafter provided for,
such sum to be accounted for by the said Commissioner as are other moneys
received by him under this Article.

Upon receipt of an application in proper form accompanied by such
payment it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to immediately
communicate with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or other proper
officer of the State, district, county, or city named in such application in-
quiring as to the facts in said application set forth, which inquiry, when
practical, may be made by telephone or telegraph. Where the request for
such permit is made through a bona fide registered dealer of this State,
as that term is defined in this Article, the applicant may anticipate the
result of such inquiry by furnishing to the said Commissioner a satisfac-
tory indemnity bond running to the State of Maryland in the penalty of
a sum equal to the fair value of the said motor vehicle as estimated by
the said Commissioner and guaranteeing to the purchaser of said motor
vehicle the right of the applicant to sell the said motor vehicle and to pass
a good and marketable title thereto. Upon receipt of satisfactory infor-
mation or upon the filing of a satisfactory bond as aforesaid, the said
Commissioner shall issue the said permit over his signature and the seal of
His office, appropriately describing therein the vehicle so to be sold, which
said permit must be delivered by the vendor to the vendee at the time such
sale is made; and such permit shall be surrendered by the vendee to the
said Commissioner when application is made for a certificate of title and
registration of the said vehicle; and no certificate of title or registration
marker shall be issued for any such vehicle unless and until such a permit
is so surrendered, or its absence satisfactorily accounted for. In the event
the applicant so furnishing such bond transfers a defective title to such
motor vehicle under such permit, it shall be the duty of the said Com-
missioner to assign the said bond to the person or persons who may have
been injured by reason of such defective title, and such assignee shall
then have the same rights thereunder as would have attended had the said
bond been given to such assignee.

PART V.

Enforcement of Motor Vehicle Laws—Arrest, Bail, Trial and Appeal.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 204. 1912, sec. 158. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 158.
1927, ch. 520, sec. 204. 1929, ch. 477. 1933, ch. 384. 1939, ch. 237.

208. In case any person shall be taken into custody because of a viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this sub-title, he shall forthwith be taken
in the counties of this State before the nearest Justice of the Peace, com-
mitting Magistrate or Police Justice of the county in which the offense is
committed, or if in Baltimore City before the Justice of the Peace of the
Traffic Court, and be entitled to an immediate hearing; and if such hearing
cannot then be had, he shall be released from custody on giving bond or
undertaking executed by a fidelity or surety company authorized to give
such bonds in this State, or by a person or persons acceptable as security or
securities by said Magistrate or Police Justice, such bond or undertaking