20                                Laws op Maryland                         Ch. 15

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of this State
shall be, at the next general election, to be held in this State in the
year 1960, submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection in pursuance of directions contained in
Article 14 of the Constitution of this State, and at the said general
election, the vote on the said proposed amendment shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words "For the
Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the Constitutional Amend-
ment", as now prescribed by law, and immediately after said election
due returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed by said Article 14 of
the Constitution.

Approved February 16, 1959.

CHAPTER 15
(Senate Bill 27)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 414 (a)
of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Road Tax on Motor Car-
riers", eliminating certain surplus language from one section of
the law relating to the road tax on motor carriers.

Whereas, In the original enactment of what is now Section 414
of Article 81 of the Code, this having been in Chapter 842 of the
Acts of 1957, several surplus words were left in the section at the
time it was being amended; and

Whereas, For clarity in reading and construction, these words
should be removed; now, therefore,

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 414 (a) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Road Tax
on Motor Carriers", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

414. Credit for payment of motor fuel tax.

(a) In general.—Every motor carrier subject to the tax hereby
imposed shall be entitled to a credit on such tax equivalent to the
rate per gallon of the Maryland motor vehicle fuel tax which is cur-
rently in effect, on all gasoline or other motor fuel purchased by
such carrier within this State for use in its operation either within
or without this State and upon which gasoline or other motor fuel
the tax imposed by the laws of this State has been paid by such
carrier. Evidence of the payment of such tax in such form as may be

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.