THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     779

sively on a route, one fixed terminus of which is within the corpo-
rate limits of any municipality of this State or of any territory
under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government 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 substi-
tute vehicles, an annual fee shall be paid to the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles for certificates of registration issued by him, of Six
Dollars ($6.00) 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 operation. 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 Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles.

178. (Passenger vehicles, refunds.)

The license, or registration fees, charged under this subtitle for
passenger motor vehicles, except in case of seasonal permits, shall
be on the basis of the entire year but may be issued on or after the
first day of November, in any year, for the remainder of the year,
expiring on the 30th day of April, in which event one-half of the
yearly fee shall be paid. No portion of the license or registration fee
paid as aforesaid will be refunded for any part of the year during
which said license is not used, provided, however, that reductions in
said fee occasioned by change of route or schedule or abandonment
of route, shall be allowed as a credit upon all sums payable by such
motor vehicle owner, in the course of the current calendar year, for
excess mileage of any motor vehicle registered in the name of such
owner under the provisions of this sub-title; and provided further
that, whenever, pursuant to or by reason of any direction or order
of any agency of the Government of the United States or of the
State of Maryland, the owner of any such passenger motor vehicle
discontinues the operation of said vehicle, or reduces the mileage
operation of said vehicle, or eliminates any route over which
said vehicle is licensed to operate, or reduces the passenger capacity
of said vehicle, or in any other manner curtails the operation of said
vehicle, such owner, at any time on or after such direction or order
has become effective, (a) may, in the event the operation of said
vehicle is discontinued, surrender the registration tags issued for
such motor vehicle, and may thereupon apply to the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles for and shall be entitled to a refund of the fee paid
for registration of such motor vehicle pro rata for the unused portion
of such year, or (b) shall be entitled, in the event the route mileage
or passenger capacity of said vehicle is reduced, or any route over
which said vehicle is licensed to operate is eliminated, or the opera-
tion of said vehicle is in any other manner curtailed, on application
to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, on forms by him to be
prescribed, showing the nature and extent of such reduction of
operation or passenger capacity, elimination of route or other curtail-
ment, to a refund of the difference between the fee actually paid for
the registration of said vehicle and the fee which would otherwise
have been required to be paid for the registration of said vehicle
calculated on the basis of the passenger seat-miles theretofore trav-
eled by said vehicle, plus the passenger seat-miles which it is shown