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 1012 SIXTY-FOURTH couennss. Sess. II. Ch. 160. 1917. 1*00* *¤‘“·¤'°* Office of recorder of deeds: For the purchase and exchange of '°°°rd°:§”d°°d°` twenty-five Elliott-Fisher bound-book recording typewriters and desks for the same $5,409. _ _ _ _ d,{'{§,;§°' °°""m‘ The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorised and directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record m his office forty er centum of the fees collected by him for Bling, indexing, and recording said instruments, and the same rate of compensation for ‘ E°°l°’°°°' P"' making copies of the records of his office, and employees of the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Colum ia when employed therein by the day shall receive compensation at the rate of $2.50 for each day so employed, payable out of the fees and emoluments of said office. “"*°*° "¢’· For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number t for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor _ vueliicles in the District of Columbia, $1,500. On and after December thirty-Brat, nineteen hundred   seventeen, all licenses, including identification tags and registrations, for motor vehicles heretofore granted shall expire and become null and h void, and on and after January iirst, nineteen hundred and eighteen, .a.r.°°°‘°h”‘° °"' there shall be charged annual y for the licensing and registration of motor vehicles the ollowing fees, which shall be paid annually to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia and which shall include R"“'· fegistration and the furnishing of an identification number tag—$5 for each vehicle of more than twenty-four horse wer and not exceeding thirty horsepower, $10 for each vehicle olomore than thirty PWM horsepower, $3 for each vehicle of twenty-four horse wer or less, vtnaiimcmaea. and $2 for each motor cycle or similar motor vehicle: E13}!/lldéd, That the term f‘ motor vehic e" used herein shall include all vehicles propelled by internal-combustion engines, electricit, or steam, except No dmv M GW traction eng1nes,road rollers, and vehicles propelled, onlyu nrails and ernment owma. tracks: Prmgtdedffurther, That motor vehicles owned andpiinaintained in the District 0 Columbia b the United States or the vernment of Rm W M m_ the District of Columbia shallliere `stered and furnishec§i)dentification xommtaf " tags without cost: And provh1ed'£l·u.1'ther, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are au orized to establish such rules and regulations and to affix thereto such fines and penalties as in their _ judgment are necessarv for the enforcement of this Act and the ,,§§fu’,';q'{}‘§d °'“°§(regulations authorized hereunder: Provided Hxfurther, That motor V0- gpmsggggre hicles, owned or operated by persons not leg residents of the District ° of Columbia but_who shall have complied with the laws of the State of their legal residence requiring the registration of motor vehicles or licens1ng_ of operators thereof and the display of identification or registration numbers on such vehicles and which identification numbers shall be displayed on such motor vehicles as provided by the laws and regailations of the District of Columbia while used or operated within the istrict, shall not be required to be licensed or registered or bear other identification numbers under the laws and regulations of the District if the State in which the owner or operator of such motor vehicle has his legal residence extends the same privilege to the Spud tc Hm motor vehicles owned or operated by legal residents of the District ¤,,,,,_ ’ ° " °' of Columbia: Promkledfurt er, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to make and V0; 3} P 621 enforce all regulations governing the speed of motor vehicles in tho ' ’ ‘ District of Co umbia, sub3ect to the penalties rescribed in the Act mmm; me my approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundredp and six. nts. or_repa1r of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia PMP _ tm when injured by tire, the unexpended balance of the appropriation oi .4m,Ip.[m $10,000 made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is reappropriated  continued available during the fiscal year nineteen iundred and eighteen.