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shall be forever free and exempt from all of said taxes. The exemption
herein provided shall not be extended, however, directly or indirectly, so
as to include any real or personal property otherwise subject to taxation
which may be owned by said company, its lessees, successors or assigns,
apart from and in addition to the property hereinabove specifically ex-
empted from such taxation, but any and all land, water rights and other
real property, and the improvements thereon, at any time acquired and
held by said Company, its lessees, successors and assigns, apart from and
in addition to said bridge, the ways and approaches thereto, and appur-
tenant structures, shall be subject to assessment and taxation for county
and State purposes as other real estate is now or may hereafter be taxed
by law.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 64.

82. None of the provisions contained in Sections 152 to 159, inclusive,
of Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of this State shall be
deemed to be applicable to said bridge or to said Company, its successors
and assigns with respect thereto.

WEIGHTS OF VEHICLES PASSING OVER BRIDGES.
1931, ch. 539, sec. 65.

83. The State Roads Commission shall have the power and right to
regulate the weights of wagons, trucks, road engines, road rollers, traction
engines, threshing machines or other vehicles of any kind passing over any
bridges or culverts included in the State Roads System and the rate of
speed of such vehicles while passing over the same by posting and main-
taining conspicuously at both ends of or entrance to said bridges or cul-
verts signboards with lettering not less than three inches in height, worded
as follows, 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 enumerated
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 enumerated
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 specified on said
signboard. Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation or other
person, whether the owner of such vehicle, the person in charge and con-
trol 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 signboard
so erected at the entrances or approaches of such bridge or culvert, or at a
greater rate of speed than that specified on said signboard, without a per-
mit in writing from the State Roads Commission 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 offense;
in addition to which the owner or person in control of such vehicle shall
be liable to the said Commission for all damages which may be done the