ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  113

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT to add two new sections to Article 56 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Licenses, "
sub-title "Motor Vehicles, " said new sections to be known as
Sections 190A and 190B, and to follow immediately after
Section 190 of said Article, providing that the use of any
public highway in the State of Maryland by a non-resident
owner or operator of a motor vehicle shall be deemed as an
appointment of the Secretary of State of Maryland by such
non-resident as his attorney upon whom may be served ail
lawful process in any action arising out of any accident in
which such non-resident may be involved while operating a
motor vehicle on the public highways of this State, provided
certain procedure as to notifying such non-resident of such
action be complied with; and regulating the time for plead-
ing to such action.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That two new sections be and they are hereby added
to Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor Vehicles, " said new
sections to be known as Sections 190A and 190B, to follow
immediately after Section 190 of said Article, and to read as
follows:

19 0A. The acceptance by a non-resident individual, firm or
corporation of the rights and privileges of using the roads and
highways of Maryland, which rights and privileges are con-
ferred by Section 190 or by any other law, as evidenced by
. his, their or its operation of a motor vehicle on any of the
public highways within the limits of this State, shall be deemed
equivalent to an appointment by such non-resident individual,
firm or corporation of the Secretary of State, or his successor
in office, to be his, their or its true and lawful attorney upon
whom may be served all lawful processes in any action or pro-
ceeding instituted, filed or pending against him, them or it,
growing out of any accident or collision in which said non-
resident may be involved, while operating or causing to be
operated, a motor vehicle on such public highway and said
acceptance of the rights and privileges of using said highways
or the operation of said motor vehicle by said non-resident in-
dividual, firm or corporation within this State, shall be a sig-
nification of his, their or its agreement that any such process