ART. 56. MOTOR VEHICLES—REGULATIONS.. 95

number within the meaning of this section. Any person driv-
ing a motor vehicle in this State, the owner of which shall not
have complied with the provisions of this sub-title, or which
motor vehicle shall display a fictitious number, the same being
a number other than that designated for such motor vehicle by
the secretary of State, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum
not exceeding fifty dollars, and, in default of payment thereof,
be punished by imprisonment in the county or city jail, as the
case may be, for a period not exceeding thirty days; no number
other than the Maryland State number shall be carried upon
the front and back of the said motor vehicle while operated or
used on any of the public highways of this State aforesaid,
provided that residents of the District of Columbia shall not
be required to remove the district number or tag when coming
into Maryland, if such tag contains the initials D. C. in plain
letters not less than one-half inch in height after such district
license number, and provided, also, that where it clearly
appears that the registration number has been lost by accident
no penalty shall be imposed. Every operator of a motor
vehicle shall give the name of the owner or the name and resi-
dence of the person hiring the motor vehicle if the said motor
vehicle be a hired machine and the registration number of
such vehicle when so requested by the keeper of a tollgate.
The managers or owners of all toll-roads shall after dark sus-
pend a red lantern over the roadway when the gate is down.

1904, ch. 518, sec. 3. 1906, ch. 449.

133. Every motor vehicle shall carry during the period,
from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, at least
two lighted lamps, showing white lights, visible at least two
hundred feet in the direction to which such motor vehicle is
proceeding, and shall also exhibit at least one red light visible
in the reverse direction; upon the fronts of the two aforesaid
lamps, showing white lights, shall be displayed in such man-
ner as to be plainly visible when said lamps are lighted the
number of the license issued as aforesaid by the secretary of
State, the same to be in separate Arabic numerals in lines that
are not less than two inches in height. Every motor vehicle
shall also be provided with good and efficient brakes, and shall
also be provided with suitable bell, horn or other signal device;
provided, however, that the user of such motor vehicle may