184 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
steps necessary to enforce the collection and prompt return
of all such fines, penalties and forfeitures of bonds, and when
any motor vehicle shall have been deposited as security under
the provisions of this subtitle, and said security is forfeited,
the same may be disposed of by the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles, or, under his direction, by the officer having the said
motor vehicle in charge, at public auction, and the proceeds
thereof dealt with pursuant to the provisions of this subtitle,
unless within ten days after notice by mail to the owner of
such motor- vehicle, or the person leaving the same as security,
the same shall be redeemed. All moneys received by the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles pursuant to the provisions of this
subtitle, except such as shall be necessary for his salary and
the expenses of his office as hereinbefore provided, shall be
accounted for and remitted by said Commissioner to the State
Treasurer, who shall create a special fund thereof, and on the
first day of April in each year one-fifth thereof to be paid
to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for use on .its
roads and streets, and the balance to be used for the oiling,
maintenance and repair of the modern roads now being built
by the State and counties, and for no other purpose. Disburse-
ments of the remaining four-fifths from this fund shall be made
l)y the Treasurer to the counties on drafts for expenditures
which have actually been made in repairs on State Aid Roads
certified to by the Maryland Geographical and Economic Sur-
vey Commission, and to the State Roads Commission for ex-
penditures which have actually been made in repairs on State
roads constructed by that body, on draft from such body itself.
The State Roads Commission shall not receive in any year out
of the whole fund available for distribution a greater propor-
tion than the proportion which the total mileage of State roads
completed to April lst of any year shall bear to the total mile-
age of both State aid roads and State roads completed to that,
date. And no county shall receive in any year from such fund
a greater proportion than its total mileage of State aid roads
to the total mileage of State aid roads completed before April
1st in any year. The remainder of said fund shall be distrib-
uted among the counties in the proportion aforesaid.
RESTRICTING SPEED OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
140s. Any town or village in any county which has any
local law or regulation of the speed of mptor vehicles or which
shall hereafter adopt the same, and which shall regulate such
speed in a manner different from that provided in this subtitle,
shall give notice of the same by posting a notice printed
in a plain and legible manner and in letters not less than four
inches high, on the right side of the road or roads entering the
said town or village in any county at the boundary line of the
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