884 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 401

CHAPTER 401.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, the para-
graphs of Section 1 of Chapter 610 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of the year 1916, as amended by Chapter
199 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the year 1918,
which are headed Class "B" and Class "C," and to repeal
and re-enact, with amendments, the paragraphs of Section
1 of Chapter 714 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the
year 1916, as amended by Chapter 304 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of the year 1918, which are headed Class
"Y" and Class ''Z," and to repeal and re-enact, with amend-
ments, Section 4 of each of said Acts amended, respectively,
as aforesaid; said respective Acts, so amended and intended
to be still further amended by this Act, being Acts relating
to motor vehicles used in the public transportation of pas-
sengers for hire, and to motor vehicles used in the public
transportation of merchandise or freight for hire, respect-
ively, over State, State Aid, Improved County Roads, and
Streets and Roads of Incorporated Towns and Cities in the
State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the paragraphs of Section 1 of Chapter 610 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of the year 1916 as amended by

Chapter 199 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the year
1918, which are headed Class "B" and Class "C," be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

Class "B." Motor vehicles weighing over three thousand
(3,000) pounds and less than seven thousand (7,000) pounds,
if equipped with solid tires, or eight thousand five hundred
(8,500) pounds if equipped with pneumatic tires, shall each
be charged and pay one-fifteenth (1/15) of a cent per each
passenger seat, multiplied by the total number of miles that
said application shall show will be travelled over State. State
Aid, Improved County Roads, and Streets and Roads of In-
corporated Towns and Cities in the State of Maryland by
such motor vehicles during the year for which said certificate
is issued; provided, that where such motor vehicles are to be
used exclusively over streets and roads of incorporated towns
and cities in the State of Maryland the maximum for motor
vehicles within this class shall be eight thousand five hundred
(8,500) pounds, whether such motor vehicles are equipped
with solid or pneumatic tires.