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presentment or indictment nor shall formal pleadings be re-
quired, but the trial of all such cases on appeal shall be had
upon the original papers transmitted to said court by the
Justice of the Peace, committing Magistrate or Police Justice
aforesaid, the defendant or traverser upon such appeal being
entitled to have a jury trial. In the event of such appeal, the
judgment or sentence so appealed from shall be stayed by the
giving of security as hereinbefore provided for, but in case
such security be not given, the fine and costs imposed shall
be paid, and the same returned to the party paying the same
in event of a reversal, suspended sentence or entry of a
nolle pros after appeal. The Justice of the Peace or court
before whom the final conviction shall be had under any
of the provisions of this sub-title, shall endorse upon or
attach to the operator's certificate of the person so convicted
the date and particulars of said conviction; and any person
destroying, erasing or concealing said endorsement of im-
prisonment or statement so attached, or failing to display
the same, together with said license certificate when required
so to do by the provisions of this sub-title shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be
fined a sum not less than Five Dollars ($5. 00) nor more than
One Hundred Dollars ($100), or imprisoned for a period of
not less than five days nor more than thirty days, or both fined
and imprisoned, for the first offense. The Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles shall prescribe a uniform system of dockets
and accounting, to be used and followed by all Justices of
the Peace, committing Magistrates or Police Justices, in this
State, in all cases arising under any of the provisions of this
sub-title. The Commissioner shall furnish, without cost, all
Justices of the Peace, committing Magistrates and Police Jus-
tices with dockets wherein to record all such cases.

In all cases wherein any person, arrested for a violation of
any of the provisions of this sub-title, shall be acquitted by
the Justice of the Peace, committing Magistrate or Police
Justice, as the case may be, the costs thereof shall be paid out
of the proceeds of fines collected under any of the provisions
of this sub-title and in the hands of the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.