2424 ARTICLE 56

tificate is issued, and no other additional fees, licenses or tax, shall be
charged by the State or any County or municipal sub-division of the State
except the property tax and gasoline tax in respect to such vehicles or
their operation.

A copy of the application filed with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
shall be forwarded to the State Roads Commission, which shall thereupon
compute the fee payable by each motor vehicle owner for each motor
vehicle for which application for registration has been made.

Such computation shall be based upon the mileage to be traversed by
said motor vehicle upon all highways having a hard, smooth surface, com-
posed of gravel, shells, crushed stone, concrete, paving blocks, asphalt, or
other similar substances.

The State Roads Commission shall have authority, in disputed cases, to
determine which roads and streets upon which such motor vehicles are to
be operated should be included in the computation.

The State Roads Commission, after making such computation, shall
forthwith certify the same to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, where-
upon the fee shown to be payable by said computation shall immediately
be paid by such motor vehicle owner to the Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles.

Where person hauls laborers to WPA project for hire, held that he must comply with
secs. 293, 295 and 304. P. S. C. v. Lichtenberg, Daily Record, Mar. 13, 1939.

This section, et seq., valid. The operation of motor vehicles for carrying passengers
for hire each Sunday over same route comes within provisions of this and following sec-
tions, though passengers went through form of chartering vehicles; injunction refused as
aid in circumventing law. Restivo v. Pub. Serv. Commn., 149 Md. 34.

This section does not deny equal protection of laws since it applies to residents
and non-residents alike, and does not impose illegal burden on interstate commerce.
Red Star Line v. Baughman, 153 Md. 609.

A petition filed by public service commission under art. 23, sec. 383, held good on
demurrer. Where owner of truck hires it to B for purpose of transporting such persons
as latter designates, he is a common carrier and must secure permit from P. S. C.
Towers v. Wildason, 135 Md. 677, distinguished. Goldsworthy v. Public Service Comn.,
141 Md. 679. Rutledge Assn. v. Baughman, 153 Md. 306.

The owner of an automobile who carries five men to and from their work for an
agreed compensation, is not a common carrier and does not operate his car "for public
use," and hence need not comply with this section. This and the following sections
contrasted with sec. 157, et seq. Towers v. Wildason, 135 Md. 683.

See sec. 145 and notes, and sec. 311, et seq.

See notes to secs. 304 and 315.

1933, ch. 596, sec. 251A. 1937, ch. 194.

294. The license fees prescribed by Section 293 shall not be applicable
to any motor vehicle operated exclusively within the corporate limits of
any municipality of this State or within any territory under the jurisdic-
tion of the Federal Government, or to any motor vehicle when such vehicle
is operated exclusively on a route, one fixed terminus of which is within
the corporate limits of any municipality of this State or of any territory
under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government and the other fixed
terminus of said route is not more than sixteen miles from the corporate
limits of any such municipality or of any such territory. For each such
motor vehicle, including reserve and substitute vehicles, an annual fee
shall be paid to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for certificates of
registration issued by him, of Four Dollars ($4.00) per each passenger seat,
and no other additional fees, licenses or tax, shall be charged by the State or
any county or municipal subdivision of the State, except the property tax
and gasoline tax in respect to such vehicles and their operation. For each