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384 LICENSES. [ART. LVI
and the proceeds thereof dealt with pursuant to the provisions of this
sub-title, unless within ten days after notice by mail to the owner of
such motor vehicle, or the person leaving the same as security, the
same shall be redeemed. Any Justice of the Peace, committing Magis-
trate or Police Justice accepting checks, drafts or any other unsecured
evidences of debt in payment of fines, or in lieu of bail, shall do so
at his own risk, provided that nothing herein shall be taken to prohibit
the release of offenders on their own recognizance in proper oases. All
monies received by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles pursuant to
the provisions of this sub-title, except such as shall be necessary for the
purpose of making refunds, as hereinbefore provided, shall be accounted
for and remitted by said Commissioner to the State Treasurer, who
shall create a special fund thereof, and pay the amounts for salaries
and expenses within the limits of the appropriation made by the Gen-
eral Assembly and the balance in quarterly installments one-fifth thereof
to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for use on its roads and
the balance to the State Roads Commission to be used for the oiling,
maintenance and repair of State roads and State-aided roads, and for
no other purpose.
See notes to section 146.
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PART III.
Registration of Motor Vehicles and Operators.
1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85. sec. 140.
140. Every owner of one or more motor vehicles before the same
shall be operated in this State, and except as hereinafter otherwise
provided, shall fill in and file with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
on a blank furnished by the Commissioner, an application for the reg-
istration of such motor vehicles, containing such information as shall
be required by the Commissioner. The horse-power of all motor vehi-
cles propelled by gas engines, except motorcycles, shall be computed and
recorded upon the following formula, and the annual registration fee,
hereinafter provided for, paid in accordance therewith; square the
diameter of the cylinder, multiply by the number of cylinders and
divide by two and one-half. For all motor vehicles propelled by steam
engines, other than tractors and traction engines, the rating shall be
based on the system of rating adopted by the United States Govern-
ment. Should any other motor power be used, and in the case of motor
vehicles having solid tires, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is em-
powered to adopt such formula to govern their rating as he may deem
proper. The said Commissioner of Motor Vehicles upon the payment
of the registration fee hereinafter provided for, shall file such applica-
tion in his office and register such motor vehicle, assigning to it a dis-
tinguishing number or mark, and shall thereupon issue to the owner
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