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taken over said bridge or culvert, and that no such vehicle of any
kind as above enumerated shall pass or be drawn, driven, propelled
or in any other manner taken over said bridge or culvert at a greater
rate of speed than that specified on said signboard. Any individual,
firm, co-partnership, 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 pro-
pelled 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, weighing, with or without any load
which may be in or upon the same, more than the number of pounds
specified on the signboard 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 same 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 sign-
board posted as herein provided and its contents shall be accepted
as prima facie evidence of the validity of the regulations thereon
prescribed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved February 13, 1957.

CHAPTER 45
(Senate Bill 66)

AN ACT to add Section 17 to Article 1 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Rules of Interpretation", to follow
immediately after Section 16 thereof, establishing and confirming
the legislative intent of the General Assembly when two or more
amendments to the same section or sub-section of the Code are
enacted at the same or different sessions of the General Assembly,
and one of them makes no reference to and takes no account of
the other or others.

Whereas, there is occasional uncertainty as to the legal effect of
a section of the Code when it has been amended by two different
Acts of the General Assembly, each of which was separately pre-
pared and takes no account of the other. Members of the Bench and
Bar may then question whether the later of the two amendments has
superseded and in effect repealed the earlier one; and

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.