ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 191
CHAPTER 95.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
178 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Edi-
tion of 1924, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor Vehicles, "
caption "Disposition of Fines and Other Receipts, " to regu-
late the method of disbursement of the receipts of the motor
vehicle department.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 178 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, Edition of 1924, be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

178. All fines, penalties and forfeitures of bonds, or any
other kind of authorized security, imposed or collected under
any of the provisions of this sub-title shall be paid over within
five days after the receipt thereof to the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles with a statement accompanying the same, set-
ting forth the action or proceedings in which such monies were
collected, the name and residence of the defendant, the nature
of the offense, and the fine, penalty, forfeiture or sentence, if
any, imposed. And this section shall not be considered as re-
pealed 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 references thereto. Said
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is hereby empowered in the
name of the State of Maryland to take all 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 sub-title, and said security is forfeited, the same may be
disposed of by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, or under
his discretion by the officer having the said motor vehicles in
charge, at public auction, and the proceeds thereof dealt with
pursuant to the provisions of this sub-title, 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. Any Justice of the Peace, committing Magistrate
or Police Justice accepting checks, drafts or any other unse-
cured evidences of debt in payment of fines, or in lieu of bail,
shall do so at his own risk, provided that nothing herein shall
be taken to prohibit the release of offenders on their own