ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  593

CHAPTER 217.

AN ACT relating to the laying or constructing of street rail-
way tracks in certain streets in the City of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That wherever any local law for Baltimore City
requires the consent of the General Assembly of Maryland for
the laying of any railway track in or upon any street within
the City of Baltimore, it shall be sufficient if authority to lay
or construct such track is granted by an ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 218.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sub-section
4 of Section 193 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor Vehicles, " by
striking out the words "and only within the limits of cities,
towns and villages in the State of Maryland. "

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Sub-section 4 of Section 193 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as
follows:

(4) Mufflers. No driver or operator of any motor car,
taxicab, automobile, motor truck or motor cycle shall use any
cutout, fitting or other apparatus or device which will allow
the gases from the engine of the motor vehicle to escape into
the atmosphere without first passing through a silencer, expan-
sion chamber or other contrivance suitable and sufficient for
reducing as far as may be reasonably practicable the noise
which would otherwise be caused by the escape of the said
gases; provided that this regulation shall apply only to a motor
vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine.

Approved April 17, 1931.