2050 ARTICLE 56.

July in any year for the remainder of the year expiring on the thirty-first
day of December, in which event one-half of the yearly fee shall be paid.
No portion of the license or registration fee paid as aforesaid will be
refunded for any part of the year during which said license is not used.

An. Code, sec. 197. 1916, ch. 714, sec. 3.

261. It shall be the duty of the Motor Vehicle Commissioner to keep
a separate account of all moneys collected under this sub-title, and any
and all moneys so collected shall be accounted for and remitted by the
Motor Vehicle Commissioner to the State Treasurer on or before the first
day of May of each year, along with a statement showing the amount due
to the State Roads Commission on account of all moneys so collected for
the use of State and State Aid Roads, and must further show the amount
due the respective Boards of County Commissioners for the use of all
improved County Roads and also the amounts due the Mayors of the
respective towns and cities in the State of Maryland for the use of all
streets and roads in said towns and cities, the amounts so due in each case
to be computed upon a mileage basis, and said Treasurer shall create a
special fund thereof and on the fifteenth day of May in each year shall
pay, on warrant, to the State Roads Commission of Maryland all moneys
so collected for the use of State and State Aid Roads, to the respective
Boards of County Commissioners all moneys collected for the use of
improved County Roads, and to the Mayors of the respective towns and
cities in the State of Maryland all moneys collected for the use of the
streets and roads of said towns and cities, and all such moneys so collected
shall be used for the maintenance of said roads and streets over which
said motor vehicles shall operate.

An. Code, sec. 198. 1916, ch. 714, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 401, sec. 4.

262. It shall be the duty of the Public Service Commission of Mary-
land, upon the application of any motor vehicle owner for a permit to
operate any motor vehicle for the public transportation of merchandise or
freight over any specified route to investigate the expediency of granting
said permit, the number of motor vehicles to be used, and the rate to be
charged, and if, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, it is
deemed best for the public welfare and convenience that said permit should
be granted, said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and au-
thorized to grant such permit subject to such conditions and terms and for
such duration of time, not exceeding the period of twenty years, as it may
deem advisable. But, if said Public Service Commission deems the grant-
ing of such permit prejudicial to the welfare and convenience of the public,
then the said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and author-
ized to refuse the granting of same. The said Public Service Commission of
Maryland is further empowered and authorized to make such rules and
regulations as it may deem necessary to govern the control and operation