ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1393

said bridge or culvert at a greater rate of speed than that
specified on said signboard. Any individual, firm, co-partner-
ship, corporation or other person, whether the owner of such
vehicle, the person in charge and control over the same, or
employee or agent of any such who shall draw, drive, propel
or in any other manner take or cause to be taken, drawn,
driven or propelled over any such bridge or culvert posted as
aforesaid any wagon, truck, road engine, road roller, traction
engine, threshing machine or other vehicle of any kind, weigh-
ing, with or without any load which may be in or upon the
same, more than the number of pounds specified on the sign-
board so erected at the entrances or approaches of such bridge
or culvert, or at a greater rate of speed than that specified on
said signboard, without a permit in writing from the State
Roads Commission shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-
five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, for each such
offense; in addition to which the owner or person in control
of such vehicle shall be liable to the said Commission for all
damages which may be done the same by the violation of the
regulation so prescribed. In any trial of any person charged
with a violation of any of the provisions of this section oral
proof of the existence of such signboard posted as herein pro-
vided and its contents shall be accepted as prima facie evidence
of the validity of the regulation thereon prescribed.

66.     Any person defacing, injuring or destroying any sign
or finger board erected or maintained under the preceding sec-
tion shall be subject, upon conviction, before any justice of the
peace or by the Circuit Court for any of the counties, to a fine
of not more than fifty dollars for each offense, or confinement
in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than
thirty days, or both fine and imprisonment.

67.     Any person or corporation who in any manner paints,
puts or fixes any advertisement, sign, notice or other writing or
printing other than notices posted in pursuance of law on or to
any stone, tree, fence, stump, pole, building or other structure
which is in or upon the public highway or which is on the prop-
erty of another, without first obtaining the written consent of
such owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion shall be punishable by fine of not more than $10. 00, which
fine shall be payable to the State Board of Forestry for the pur-
poses described in this section; provided, however, that the