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said. It shall not be necessary in such case for the Grand Jury
to find either presentment or indictment, nor shall formal
pleading be required, but the trial of all such cases on appeal
shall be had upon the original papers transmitted to said court
by the Justice of the Peace, Committing Magistrate or Police
Justice as aforesaid, the defendant or traversers upon such
appeal being entitled to have a jury trial. In the event of such
appeal the judgment, sentence or decision so appealed from
shall be stayed by the giving of security as hereinbefore pro-
vided for, but in case such security be not given, the fine
and costs imposed shall be paid and the same returned to the
party paying the same in the event of reversal on appeal. The
Justice of the Peace or court before whom a final conviction
shall be had under the provisions of Sections 140a, 140b, 140c,
140d, 140e or 1401 of this subtitle, shall endorse upon or attach
to the license certificate of the person so convicted the date and
particulars of such conviction; and any person destroying,
erasing or concealing said endorsement or statement so at-
tached, or failing to display the same, together with said
license certificate, when required so to do by the provisions of
this subtitle, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not exceeding two
hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a period not exceeding
thirty days, or both.
MOTOR VEHICLES AS BAIL.
140q. Any person arrested for violating any of the provi-
sions of this subtitle may tender as bail a motor vehicle or
motorcycle of which he is the owner, and if such vehicle is of
sufficient value it shall be accepted as security for his appear-
ance in lieu of any other bail.
DISPOSITION OF FINES AND OTHER RECEIPTS.
140r. All fines, penalties and forfeitures of bonds imposed
or collected under any of the provisions of this subtitle shall be
paid over within ten days after the receipt thereof to the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles, with a statement accompanying
the same, setting forth the action or proceeding in which such
moneys were collected, the name and residence of the de-
fendant, the nature of the offense, and the fine, penalty, for-
feiture or sentence, if any, imposed. And this section shall
not be considered as repealed by the passage hereafter of any
law providing for a different disposition of fines and penalties
in any county or other municipal division of this State, unless
the same contains a repeal of this section by express reference
thereto. Said Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is hereby em-
powered, in the name of the State of Maryland, to take all
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