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city jail, as the case may be, for a period not exceeding
thirty days; no number other than the Maryland State num-
ber 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
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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 residence 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 man-
agers or owners of all toll-roads shall after dark suspend a
red lantern over the roadway when the gate is down.
133. Every motor vehicle shall carry during the period,
from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, at
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Lighted lamps
to be carried
from sunset
to sunrise.
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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 manner 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 proceed to his destination
in event of a bona fide failure of his lights to operate, if he
sounds his bell, horn, or other signal device at least once in
every two hundred feet, does not proceed at a rate of speed
greater than one mile in ten minutes, and takes the first rea-
sonable opportunity to put his lights in order; otherwise
such operator to be deemed guilty of a violation of the afore-
going provision.
134. The following rates of speed may be maintained, but
shall not be exceeded, upon any public street, public road or
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