Section 4
Sec. 4. Section forty of the same Act,is amended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 40. The Commission is authorized and ordered to charge and collect from any public service the following fees: "(a) The (a) charge of twenty-five pesos for the registration of: "(1) Applications under the provisions of sections sixteen (a), (b), (c), and (d), and twenty (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), and (h): Provided, however, That no fee shall be collected for the reduction of rates if the same does not alter or modify in any way the basic rates of the schedule. "(2) Applications for the approval or modification of maximum rates under section fourteen. "(b) Fifteen pesos shall be collected from operators of land transportation for the registration of: "(1) Applications under sections seventeen (f), and twenty (a) and (b). "(2) Applications for the extension of¦time for the registration of motor vehicles previously authorized by the Commission. "(c) Other applications filed:by any public service operator not specifically provided for in the preceding paragraphs of this section other than motions of a temporary or incidental character. "(d) For reimbursement of the expensesiincurred by the Commission for the supervision and regulation of the operations of motor vehicle services: "(1) For each automobile or motor truck of less than one ton net transportation capacity, five pesos. "(2) For each motor truck of one ton or more'but less two tons net transportation capacity, ten pesos. "(3) For each motor truck of two or more, but less than three'tons.net transportation capacity, twenty pesos.; "(4) For each motor truck of three tons or more but less than four tons net transportation.capacity, thirty pesos. "(5) Motor trucks or buss of four tons or more.net capacity shall pay at the rate of ten pesos per ton net or fraction thereof. "The. fees provided in this section shall be paid on or before June thirtieth of each year with a penalty of fifty per centum in case of delinquency: Provided, however, That motor vehicles registered in the Bureau of Public Works after June thirtieth shall be exempt from payment for said year. "(e) For reimbursement of the expenses incurred by the Commission in the supervision of other public services; ten centavos for each one hundred pesos or fraction thereof, of the capital stock subscribed or paid, or if no shares have been issued, of the capital invested. "(f) For the increase nf capital stock, ten centavos for each one hundred pesos or fraction-thereof, of the increased capital. "(g) For each permit authorizing the increase of equipment, the installation of new units or authorizing the increase of capacity, or the extension of means or general extensions in the services, ten centavos for each one hundred pesos or fraction of the additional capital necessary to carry out the permit. "(h) For the first inspection or certificate of each apparatus or meter used by any public service, two pesos, and for subsequent examination, the expenses incurred in making the examination shall be paid. "(i) For certification of copies of official documents in the files of the Commission, fifty centavos, plus twenty centavos for each page or folio so certified. "All collections of fees provided in this section shall be covered into the Philippine Treasury. This article shall not be applicable to the Commonwealth of the Philippines, nor to its instrumentalities, nor to enterprises that have legislative franchises for the exercise of which the law specifies the payment of a certain per centum of their earnings in lieu of any other taxes, fees or license fees."