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operating or running a motor vehicle, whether his own or anothers, for
hire or profit.

An indictment for a failure to comply with this section need not negative
the exceptions mentioned in section 161. Since a license is a mere permit;
it is always revocable, and the provision of this section (as. it stood prior
to the act of 1912. chapter 133), that the license "shall be good until sus-
pended or revoked" and "shall not he required to be renewed annually,"
does not alter the case. Section 161 does not create arbitrary distinc-
tions. Purpose of the "motor vehicle" law; it conies within the police,
power and is constitutional and valid. See notes to articles 15 and 23 of .
the Declaration of Rights and to article 3, sections 29 and 38, of the Md.
Constitution. Ruggles v. State, 120 Md. 550.

1912, ch. 133, sec. 138A.

140A. It shall be the duty of said Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
to publish in a pamphlet from* the first week in each and every calendar
month, for public distribution, a complete list of all the names of those
persons to whom licenses have been issued during the previous month,
whether owners of such vehicles or otherwise, together with the num-
bers of the licenses, the names of the machines and the names of the
manufacturers of the same, horse power of the machine, and such other
information he may deem to be of public interest, and in the same
pamphlet he shall also publish a complete and accurate list of all
operator's licenses issued by him. In the same pamphlet shall also be
published the aggregate amount of money received by said commis-
sioner for the issuance of said licenses during the previous month, and
that at least six copies of said lists shall be sent monthly to the Board
of Police Commissioners for Baltimore City and at least three copies
be sent to the sheriff of each of the different counties of this State.

And once in each three months such publications shall be made to
include and show all such licenses of every sort who may have such
licenses at that time and that five copies of each such quarterly pub-

lication shail be sent free to the sheriff of each county in the State, to
the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City and to the mar-
shal or chief of police in each city and county where a uniformed force,
is maintained.

1914, ch. 564.

140B. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
to employ, with the consent and approval of the Governor, and within
the appropriation hereinafter provided for, such number of deputies
equipped with motor-cycles, as in the opinion of the Commissioner of.
Motor Vehicles, may be necessary to enforce the provisions of the motor
vehicle and traffic laws throughout the entire State, said Commissioner
to have authority to discharge or dismiss said deputies in his discre-
tion, with or without other cause than may appear to him sufficient
And whenever it shall happen that any city, town, village or community
of citizens shall make to said Commissioner a complaint in writing that

*Probably a typographical error in the act.
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