ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1015

expire and become void. At or before the expiration of the
thirty-day period, persons licensed to receive instructions and
desiring to obtain an operator's or chauffeur's license must
apply in person to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, or
one of his deputies, at the Baltimore office of the said Commis-
sioner, or any of the places throughout the State which the.
Commissioner may designate for the convenience of appli-
cants. Upon surrendering the instruction license and under-
going a satisfactory examination as to his qualifications, such
person shall be entitled to receive the license applied for
upon the payment of the fees provided by Section 144 of this
sub-title.

Applications for licenses shall be made upon blanks fur-
nished by said Commissioner, and said application blanks and
said licenses shall be in such form and contain such pro-
visions, not inconsistent with this sub-title, as said Commis-
sioner may determine. A number shall be assigned to each
license and a proper record of all applications for licenses
and of all licenses issued shall be kept by said Commissioner
at his office and shall be open to public inspection. Each
license shall state the name, age, post office address of the
licensee and the number assigned to him, and shall entitle
the licensee to operate any car of any make, unless otherwise
specified thereon. Said license certificate shall at all times be
carried by the licensee when he is operating a motor vehicle
upon the highways of this State, and shall be subject to exam-
ination upon demand by any officer of the law, and said
license shall have endorsed thereon in the proper handwriting
of the licensee the name of said licensee, and when requested
by a proper officer, in the discharge of his duties under the
law, said licensee shall write his name in the presence of said
officer, to the end that the identity of said licensee may be
determined, provided that no operator of a motor vehicle shall
he stopped by any officer for the sole purpose of exhibiting
his operator's license. No license badge shall be Avorn.

No person, whether resident or non-resident of the State,
under sixteen years shall operate a motor vehicle upon any
road, highway, street, lane or other public way within the
State of Maryland. No person under the age of sixteen years,
whether resident or non-resident, shall operate, drive or direct
any motor cycle, as aforesaid, provided that persons between