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what force or power the same may be driven, ridden or pro-
pelled, which is or may be used for or adapted to pleasure,
riding or the transportation of passengers, baggage or mer-
chandise upon the streets or roads; and every draught or rid-
ing animal whether driven, ridden or led excepting that an
animal or animals attached to any vehicle shall with such
vehicle, constitute a vehicle. Any person violating any pro-
visions or regulations hereof shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each
and every offense any sum not less than one dollar and not
exceeding twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1st, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 526.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 187
and 189 of Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, title "Corporations, " sub-title "Insurance De-
partment. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 187 and 189 of Article 23 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Corpora-
tions, " sub-title "Insurance Department, " be, and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read
as follows:

187. No insurance company, corporation or association
chartered, incorporated or organized under the laws of the
State of Maryland, shall hereafter engage in or carry on the
business in this State of becoming surety or guarantor on bonds
of any kind, or the business of issuing policies of insurance of
the classes known as employers or public liability, personal ac-
cident, plate glass, steam boiler, burglary, sprinkler leakage,
credit indemnity, health, title insurance and mortgage guar-
antee or any other kind of insurance, until such company shall
obtain first from the insurance commissioner of Maryland a
license of authority for that purpose.

189. Each company, corporation or association chartered
or organized as aforesaid, except life, fire, sprinkler leakage,