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same and stating the local speed limit, and unless the notice is
posted and maintained as aforesaid in a conspicuous manner,
then the speed regulation provided in this subtitle shall pre-
vail, any such local law or regulation to the contrary notwith-
standing.

PUBLIC VEHICLES EXEMPT.

140t. All motor vehicles used by the Police Department of
any city, town, village or county of this State, and all motor
vehicles used by the Fire Department or Salvage Corps of any
city, town, village or county of this State, and all ambulances,
road rollers, street sprinklers, street sweepers or cleaners or
traction engines used for the hauling of agricultural ma-
chinery, are hereby exempt from the provisions of this subtitle,

REPEAL.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts and parts of Acts
and laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith or contrary
hereto, be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of
such inconsistency.

EFFECTIVE.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
upon and from the date of its passage, but no prosecution
based upon violations of Sections 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138
and 140 of this Act shall be brought for any offense committed
prior to July 1, 1910; provided, that the plates and markers
required by Section 132 of Chapter 449 of the Acts of 1906 are
displaced upon such vehicles as required by said Section 132
of Chapter 449 of the Acts of 1906; and provided, that until
July 1, 1910, certificates of registration of motor vehicles shall
be issued by the Secretary of State as in Chapter 449 of the
Acts of 1906 provided.

Approved April 5, 1910.

ARTICLE LIX.

LUNATICS AND INSANE.
CHAPTER 715.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 17,
18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25 and 37 of Article 59 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Lunatics
and Insane," sub-title "Lunacy Commission"; and also to
add seven more sections to said Article, to follow immedi-
ately after Section 38, and to be known, respectively, as Sec-