Price-Bass Co. v. McCabe

Mr. Justice. McKinney

delivered the opinion of the Conrt.

The question involved is the amount of registration fees the State is authorized to collect on motor trucks.

By chapter 8, Acts of 1915, the fee was $5 for “each auto truck,” regardless of size.

By section 2, chapter 73, Acts of 1917, the fee was fixed as follows:

‘ ‘ For all motor trucks, freight and passenger, 80' cents per rated horsepower of motor so operated as rated by the Society of Automobile Engineers and .an additional fee of $3 per ton for feach ton carrying capacity; (factory rating). ’ ’

Section 15, chapter 149, Acts of 1919;…