350 ARTICLE 56.

1927, ch. 363.

228A. ¹ In computing the license fees of garages according to the pre-
ceding section, a space fifteen feet wide and extending the entire length or
depth of the garage, in all cases where a space is required, by law or any
official regulation, to be kept open, shall be deducted from the total floor
space of the garage. The owner of any place or building for rent where
three or more motor vehicles are stored, or where three or more motor vehi-
cles are kept or stored for a consideration, whether in a public space or in
separate or private compartments, must obtain a license under the preced-
ing section. But anything in said preceding section to the contrary not-
withstanding, the license fees for garages having less than 1600 square feet
of floor space, after deductions therein and herein allowed, shall be as fol-
lows:

Garages containing not more than 500 square feet.......... $5. 00;

Those containing more than 500 and not more than 1, 000 square

feet.............................................. 10. 00;

Those containing more than 1, 000 and not more than 1, 600

square feet......................................... 15. 00.

Cash Register and Adding Machine Companies.

229.

This section valid. One license fee only required to be paid by person main-
taining more than one place of business in state; contemporaneous construction
and application. Adding Machine Co. v. State, 146 Md. 193.

Intelligence Offices and Employment Agencies.
232.

This section referred to in construing New Jersey act regulating employment
agencies. Bibnik v. McBride, 72 L. Ed. 921, 277 U. S. 370 (dissenting opinion).

Public Passenger Motor Vehicles.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 251. 1912, sec. 189. 1516, ch, 610. 1918, ch. 199, sec. 1.
1922, ch. 401, sec. 1. 1924, ch. 291, sec. 189. 1927, ch. 620, sec. 251.

251. It shall be the duty of each owner of a motor vehicle to be used in
the public transportation of passengers for hire operating over State, State
Aid, improved county roads, and streets and roads of incorporated towns
and cities in the State of Maryland; (1) to secure a permit from the Pub-
lice Service Commission of Maryland to operate over said roads and
streets; (2) to present same to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles annu-
ally, at the time and according to the method and provisions prescribed by
law for the making of applications for registration tags in the case of all
other motor vehicles; (3) to mate an application in writing for registra-
tion with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and to state in said appli-
cation besides the other matters by law provided; (a), the seating capacity
for passengers of said motor vehicle; (b) the route on which said motor

¹ This section held unconstitutional by Judge Solter, Criminal Court. Part 2. of
Baltimore City, in State of Maryland v. Frank S. Nixdorff (Daily Record. June 12,
1928).