242                              Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 98

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That sub-section (d) of Section 2 of Sub-title I of Article 78 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1955 Supp.), title "Public Service
Cominission", sub-title "Scope of Article and Definitions", be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

2.

(d) "Common Carrier", means and includes any person, public
authority. Federal, State, District or municipal transportation agency
engaged in the public transportation for hire of persons, property
or freight, whether by land, water, air or any combination of them,,
and includes, but is not limited to, air line company, canal company,
car company, express company, freight company, freight line com-
pany, motor vehicle company (including automobile company, motor
bus company and trucking company), power boat company (includ-
ing vessel-boat company and steamboat company and ferry com-
pany) , railroad company, street railroad company, sleeping car com-
pany, taxicab company, toll bridge company, towing and lightering
company, and transit company.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on June 1, 1956.

Approved March 26, 1956.

CHAPTER 98
(House Bill 2)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State Debt in the aggregate
amount of

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EIGHT MILLION
FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND
SIXTY-SEVEN DOLLARS ($8,550,167), the proceeds thereof
to be used for certain necessary building, construction, deferred
maintenance, and equipment purposes of this State, for acquiring
certain land and providing generally for the issue and sale of
Certificates of Indebtedness evidencing such loan, and modifying
the provisions of Section 7 of Chapter 780 of the Acts of 1953,
of Section 7 of Chapter 45 of the Acts of 1954, and of Section 7
of Chapter 266 of the Acts of 1955.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed
to issue a State loan to be known as the " General Construction Loan
of 1956", in the aggregate sum of

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