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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, provided, however,
that reductions in said fee occasioned by change of route or schedule or
abandonment of route, shall be allowed as a credit upon all sums payable
by such motor vehicle owner, in the course of the current calendar year,
for excess mileage of any motor vehicle registered in the name of such
owner under the provisions of this sub-title.

Application for readjustment of fees should be made during license year; pro-
cedure for readjustment after license year, is through Governor or Treasury
Dept.; mandamus will not lie to recover excess paid into State Treasury. Suit
against state. Red Star Line v. Baughman, 153 Md. 610 (arose prior to Act 1927,
ch. 620).

See notes to secs. 251 and 255.

254.

See notes to secs. 253 and 255.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 255. 1912, sec. 192. 1916, ch. 610, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 401, sec. 4.

1927, ch. 620, sec. 255.

255. 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 passengers 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
public welfare and convenience that said permit should be granted, said
Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to grant
such permit subject to such reasonable conditions and terms, and for such
duration of time, not exceeding the period of twenty years, as it may deem
advisable, provided, however, that permits to operate over the streets of
the City of Baltimore shall not be granted for periods in excess of one year.
But if said Public Service Commission deems the granting of such per-
mit prejudicial to the welfare and convenience of the public, then the said
Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to re-
fuse the granting of the 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
of same, and enforce the same by such penalties or forfeitures as it may
prescribe, including the revocation of the permit granted under the pro-
visions of this sub-title.

The Public Service Commission having granted a bus company a permit to
operate busses between Baltimore and Eastern Shore points, via the Annapolis-
Claiborne Ferry, held that the court would not interfere on ground that opera-
tion of busses would reduce revenues of W., B. & A. R. Co. Pub. Serv. Commn.
v. Williams, 167 Md. 316.
See notes to sec, 251.

1933, ch. 596, sec. 255A.

255A. Upon complaint filed with the Public Service Commission by
any carrier setting forth under affidavit that a permit granted such carrier