The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-26
REGISTER YOUR AUTO NOW
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 owns more than one machine the old
 number can be used on only one and he will be required to procure a new number for each other machine.
 Only official markers can be used and must be obtained of the secretary.
 Markers cost $1 for each set of two.
 When markers ordered to replace markers lost or damaged the secretary,
 upon application will issue a certta-
 cate, without charge, permitting the
 use of temporary markers, until the official markers ordered can be fur
 nished
 The state secretary has been send- ing out to the automobile owners who
 have registered under the old law
 blanks for registration and circular
 letters giving the hints referred to above, also copies of the new automo-
 bile law printed in pamphlet form. Automobile owners who return the blanks, properly filled out, before Sep
 tember l, will be allowed to retain
 their own numbers and use their old
 markers. If the blanks come in later than September 1, 1t is a matter of choice with the. secretary of state. and the automobile owners take chances of losing their numbers and having to | take new ones.
 The markers will be the same under
 the new law as the old; the letters or figures shall not be less than four inches high and each stroke thereof
 not less than one-half inch wide.
 Markers must continue to be carried both front and rear, and in addition
 the rear lamp showing a red light from
 the rear and white light at the side must be so arranged as to illuminate
 the rear number. In the night season
 one or more white lights shall be dis played on the forward part of the ma- chine.
 One of the most important features or the new law Is the speed regula- tions. The present arbitrary speed limit of twelve miles an hour within any city or borough and twenty miles an hour elsewhere has been abolished tThe law provides that at no time shall a person operate a motor vehicle reck- iessly, or of greater rate of speed than l is reasonable and proper, having re- gard to the width, traffic and use of lthe highway, or so as to endanger the lsafety of the R'tblic Exceeding a speed of twenty-five miles an hour for the distance of one-eighth of a mile is prima facie evidence that the person lis operating in violation of the law. lUpon approaching and in passing a. person walking in the highway or horse or other draft animal, or a crossing, bridge, sharp turn, curve or descent, the operator of the car shall lreduce it's speed and if any such ani- man is frightened, or the person in charge signals so to do, he shall stop the motor vehicle. Upon approaching a bridge, sharp turn or curve, or steep descent, the operator must give a timely signal with his horn or bell.
 A person violating any of the speed provisions may be fined not more than $200 or Imprisonment not more than thirty days, or both, for the first of- lfense, and for any subsequent offense. lmay be fined not more than $500 or Imprisoned not more than sixty days or both For violating any other pro vision of the law he may be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not
 more than thirty days, or both.