2250 VETOES.

not to exceed nine percent (9%) upon the gross receipts
of every person, firm or corporation derived from operating
public passenger motor vehicles over fixed routes in the
City of Baltimore, with certain exceptions.

SENATE BILL 380

AN ACT to add a new sub-section to Section 6 of Article 4 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland and the Balti-
more City Charter adopted by the voters of Baltimore City
at the election held on November 5, 1946, title "Baltimore
City", sub-title "General Powers", to be under sub-heading
"Public Passenger Motor Vehicles", said new sub-section
to be known as Sub-section (23A) of said Section 6, to fol-
low immediately after Sub-section (23) of said section,
authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
require a permit or franchise for the operation of certain
public passenger motor vehicles over fixed routes in said
City and to prescribe the terms and conditions and regula-
tions in connection with the granting of such permits or
franchises.

SENATE BILL 126

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
(19) of Section 6 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, as enacted by Chapter 548 of the Laws;
of Maryland of 1945, and codified as Sub-section (20) of Sec-
tion 6 of the Baltimore City Charter, adopted by the voters
of Baltimore City at the election held on November 5, 1946,
title "Baltimore City", sub-title "General Powers", sub-
heading "Park Tax", authorizing the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore by ordinance to change from time to time,
either by way of increase or decrease, the tax on the gross
receipts of passenger street railway companies operating
in the City of Baltimore, subject to certain limitations.

Senate Bills Nos. 127 and 380 relate mainly to the passen-
ger bus operations of the Baltimore Transit Co. and No. 126 to
its electric railway operations. In all of them the City seeks
additional taxing powers over the company operations. The
City has never been authorized to tax the buses, but the State
has taxed them to the same extent as other similar operations.
If these bills become law, the company would be subjected to
two taxing authorities, the City and the State, whereas the
operations of all other classes of motor vehicles, public and
private, commercial and non-commercial, would remain sub-
ject to the State's taxing powers only. There is no substan-
tial reason for such a discrimination. The City of Baltimore-