ART. 56] MOTOR VEHICLES. 719

Motor Vehicles.

133.

There is nothing in the statute laws of Maryland relative to motor vehi-
cles inconsistent with the well settled principle of the common law, that a
master is not liable for the unauthorized acts of his servant not com-
mitted within the scope of his employ. Symington v. Sipes, 121 Md. 319.

The term "common carrier" includes motor vehicle transportation com-
panies—article 23, section 413A.

See article 91, section S2A, et seq.

See notes to section 140.

1914, ch. 576.

133B. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have charge of
the location and maintenance of the office provided for in the afore-
going section, and shall appropriate for this purpose, such sums as may
be necessary, not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars per annum
out of the funds collected by said Commissioner, for the location and
maintenance of a suitable office and the employment of such additional
clerical assistance as may from time to time be necessary.

135.

Cited but not construed in Hendrick v. State, 115 Md. 555.

-1904, art. 56, sec: 131. 1904, ch. 518, sec. 1. 3006, ch. 449, sec. 131. 1910, ch. 207,
sec. 136 (p. 173). 1912, ch. 133, sec. 136.

138. The following fees shall be paid to the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles for the certificates of registration issued by him in accordance
with the provisions of this sub-title.

Class A. Five dollars per annum for each motor vehicle with a
rating of ten horse power or less; ten dollars per annum for each motor
vehicle with a rating of more than ten horse power and not more than
twenty horse power; fifteen dollars per annum for each motor vehicle
with a rating of more than twenty horse power and not more than thirty
horse power; twenty dollars per annum for each motor vehicle with a
rating of more than thirty horse power and not more than forty horse
power, and twenty-five dollars per annum for each motor vehicle with
a rating of more than forty horse power.

Class B. Three dollars per annum for each certificate of registra-
tion of a motor vehicle used only for the transportation of merchandise.

Class C. One dollar and eighty cents per annum for each certificate
of registration of a motorcycle.

Class D. Twenty-four dollars per annum, for each certificate assign-
ing a general distinguishing number of marks to a manufacturer or
dealer in motor vehicles other than motorcycles.

Such certificates shall entitle such manufacturer or dealer to use four
duplicate sets of the general distinguishing number or mark assigned
to him as in section 137 provided, and subiect to the qualifications in
said section, providing the same shall be interchangeable among the
cars of such manufacturer or dealer during the current year in which