Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-16
IN EFFECT IN THIRTY DAYS
Rules for Motorists Crossing Line
Either Way to Be Similar.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE POLICE
New System Expected to Bring Into
Local Treasury More Than
$4,000 Annually.

Mary land autOmObiliStS entering the Dis
trict of Columbia will pay the same
license fee as is assessed by the state of
Maryland against automobilists from the
District who go across the line into
Maryland. Precisely the same fees,
licenses. fines and penalties will be en-
forced in the District against Maryland
autOists as have for the last few years
been inflicted on Washingtonians who
drive their machines over the roads in
the neighboring state.
This is the effect of the new police reg
ulation signed by the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia yesterday after
noon and officially published today. The
regulation becomes effective thirty days
after the date of publication.
At present Maryland autoists whose
business bring them into the District of
Columbia pay license fee of 81, which
is perpetual, the fee being paid once and
not having to be renewed.
Schedule of Fees.
Under the amended regulations adopted
yesterday by the Commissioners the fees
will be as follows:
For motor vehicles with rating OF 10
horsepower or less s. a year
For motor vehicles with a rating of
more than 10 and less than ~ horse
power, SO year.
For motor vehicles with a rating of
more than 20 and less than 30 horse
power, $10 year.
For motor vehicles with rating Of
more than 30 and not to exceed 40 horse
power, $50 year.
For motor vehicles with rating of
more than 40 horsepower, SO a year.
Other license fees are:
For each certification of registration of
a motor vehicle used for the transporta-
ton of merchandise. $3 a year.
For each certificate Of registration Of
motor cycle, $50 year.
For each certificate assigning general
distinguishing number or mark to a
manufacturer or dealer in motor vehicles
other than motor cycles, $24 a year.
For each certificate assigning a general
number or distinguishing mark to a
manufacturer or dealer in motor cycles,
$40 year.
Instructions to Police.
When the new regulation goes into ef
feet, thirty days from today. the police
of Washington. it is explained, will be in
structed to watch carefully all roads en-
tering the District of Columbia from
Maryland and to arrest any Maryland
autOist who drives his car into the Dis
trict without having obtained the neces-
sary tags provided for by the amended
regulation and having the same properly
attached to and displayed on his ma
chine.
1t is the understanding that the in
structionS given to the police Will be that
sucn cars Shall not be permitted to pe
driven over road or Stieet within the
District until the proper tags have been
secured. and that Maryland autOists who
are arrested for violation of the regula-
tion will be taken to police headquarters
in the vehicles used by the police depart
ment for the transportation of other law
viOlators, while their own machines Will
be left standing at the roadside.
The fines and penalties assessed by the
state laws of Maryland and other states
against residents of the District who vio-
late any part of the Maryland automobile
laws will be assessed against motorists
from Maryland or other states entering
the District of Columbia without having
compiled with the new regulation.
In brief, exact reciprocity of licenses,
fees and penalties for violation is estab-
lished. by the new regulation and will
become effective thirty days from today.
No specific enumeration of penalties or
fees is necessary, the amendment adopted
yesterday being an automatic adoption
by the Commissioners of laws at present
in force in other states.
Strikes Hard Blow.
The new regulation will strike Mary
land motorists especially hard, it is said,
as, up to the present time. the two-dollar
perpetual license has been all that was
required of Maryland automobilists using
the roads of the District of Columbia.
Reciprocal relations have existed be-
tween the District and Virginia for sew
eraI years, and no such annoyance and
expense has been occasioned Washington
motorists who travel over the roads on
the other side of the Potomac as has
bean inflicted by various petty officials
of Maryland.
of MARYLAND use the streets and roads of
Washington and the District OF Column,
bia under the two-dollar perpetual
license The establishment of the new
system of licensing and the greatly in
creased fees for license tags VIII. 1t Is
estimated, bring into the treasury OF the
District more than $4,000 year, which
probably will be largely increased by the
amount of fines assessed for violations OF
the new regulation, which. it is stated
today, will be rigidly enforced.
Will Prosecute Shaw.
Officials of the Chevy Chase Club
stated today that the club has retained
counsel and intends to institute proceed
ines against Walter Shaw, constable for
the Bethesda district, who, 1t is stated by
officers and members of the club. invaded
the club grounds and house last Satur-
day night, without warrant. and made
a number of arrests for technical vio-
lations of the Maryland automobile law.
1t is the intention of the clu~ officials
to prosecute Shaw for trespass. If this
Is possible and to file suit against his
bondsmen for personal damages because
of the arrests. The club officials have
been advised by number of attorneys
that the action of the constable was IL
legal and that in entering without war
rant upon the private grounds of the
club the officer made himself violator
of the law.
AS announced in The Star yesterday,
Shaws resignation as constable for the
Bethesda district was accepted by the
board of commissioners of Montgomery
county Tuesday. Sheriff Howard of
Montgomery county this morning receiv-
ed Shaw's resignation as deputy sher-
| iff. and accepted the resignation without
delay. Shaw's resignation. both as con-