HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 357

General Laws of Maryland, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Public
Passenger Motor Vehicles, " as the same was enacted by Chap-
ter 596 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland at its
regular 1933 Session, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

251A. The license fees prescribed by Section 251 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 jurisdiction 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 Gov-
ernment 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 opera-
tion. For each such motor vehicle, the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles shall furnish a distinctive marker or tag, which
marker or tag shall be carried and displayed in such manner
as directed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved March 29, 1937.

CHAPTER 195.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 11
of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, title "Merit System", as enacted by
Chapter 41, Section 11, of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland at its 1920 Regular Session, and to provide that