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amount of $10.00 if operating in each county of this State in which said
person, firm or domestic corporation shall operate; provided, however,
this section shall not apply to persons, firms or corporations doing a con-
struction business the gross amount of whose orders accepted and executed
does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum.

This section is not in conflict with art. 3, sec. 29, of Md. Constitution—see notes
thereto. As traverser is a resident of Maryland, he cannot raise question of this section
being unconstitutional, in that it discriminates against non-residents. State v. Case,
132 Md. 270.

Non-Resident Wholesale Tobacco Dealers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 247. 1912, sec. 185. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 185.

292. Each non-resident person, firm or corporation who shall sell at
wholesale any tobacco, cigars or cigarettes for delivery in this State, shall
before doing so, first take out a license therefor, in the City of Baltimore,
if such business is transacted in said city, paying therefor an annual
license fee of $50.00; and in each county of this State in which said non-
resident person, firm or corporation shall operate, paying therefor ari

annual license fee of $10.00.
Cited in construing Ch. 188, Acts of 1935. Buck Glass Co. v. Gordy, 170 Md. 689.

Public Passenger Motor Vehicles.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 251. 1912, sec. 189. 1916, ch. 610. 1918, ch. 199, sec. 1.

1922, ch. 401, sec. 1. 1924, ch. 291, sec. 189. 1927, ch. 620, sec. 251.

1933, ch. 596, sec. 251.

293. It shall be the duty of each owner of a motor vehicle to be used
in the public intra-State 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 registration 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 ve-
hicles 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 complete description of each, such motor vehicles when in use to be
designated by a special marker to be furnished by the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles; (d) the length of the route in miles on State, State-Aid,
improved County roads, and streets and roads of incorporated towns and
cities, respectively, in the State of Maryland; (e) the weight of the ve-
hicle; and (f) the schedule under which it shall be operated; and (4)
for each such motor vehicle, except reserve or substitute vehicle, an annual
fee shall be paid to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for certificates of
registration issued by him, of one-eighteenth (118c) of a cent per each
passenger seat multiplied by the total number of miles that said applica-
tion shall show will be traveled by such motor vehicle over State, State-
Aid, improved County roads, and streets and roads of incorporated towns
and cities in the State of Maryland, during the year for which said cer-