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this sub-title shall be subject to the control of the County Commissioners,
or such other public body in the county as the County Commissioners may
designate, including the County Welfare Board, or County Civil Works
Board now existing, or which may hereafter be created or any similar
public body in the county co-operating with the State or Federal Govern-
ment in the administration of public relief or civil works funds.

That the administration, expenditure and accounting of all sum or sums
raised, borrowed or obtained by any incorporated town or city under the
provisions of this sub-title shall be subject to the control of the governing
body of such incorporated town or city, or such other public body as the
governing body may designate.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 01, sec. 208.

208. That this sub-title being enacted to meet an emergency through
the police power of the State, is hereby declared to be immediately neces-
sary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and shall
be liberally construed.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 91, sec. 209.

209. That should any section, or part of a section of this sub-title be
held to be invalid for any reason, such holding shall not be construed as
affecting the validity of any remaining section or part of a section of this
sub-title, it being the legislative intent that the remainder of this sub-title
shall stand, notwithstanding the invalidity of such section or part of a
section.

Mileage Tax for Use and Maintenance of Roads.

1933, ch. 593, sec. 199.

210. It shall be the duty of each owner of a motor vehicle to be¹ used
in the interstate 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 Public Service Commission of Maryland to operate over said roads
and streets; (2) to present same to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
annually, 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 make an application in writing for regis-
tration with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and to state in said
application besides the other matters by law provided; (a) the seating
capacity for passengers of said motor vehicle; (b) the route on which said
motor vehicle is to be used; (c) whether reserve or substitute motor vehi-
cles are maintained by the applicant to be used only in emergencies, and
if so, the number of such reserve and substitute motor vehicles and a com-
plete description of each, such motor vehicles when in use to be designated
by a special marker to be furnished by the Commissioner of Motor Vehi-