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further improvements in said district; provided, however, that said
money shall be collected from said district named in this bill and shall
not be chargeable to any other districts of the county.

1910, ch. 334. 1914 Code, sec. 172.

228. The County Commissioners shall have the power to appoint for
each district of the county, as aforesaid, a commission of three taxpayers
thereof to carry out the provisions of this Act in their respective districts,
to be appointed in the same manner and to serve for the like purposes
as hereinbefore provided for the Fifth District.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 125. 1896, ch. 340. 1914 Code, sec. 173.

229. They are authorized and empowered, whenever it shall seem to
them expedient for the encouragement of the growth and development of
manufactures and manufacturing industry in said county, upon the appli-
cation as hereinafter provided, of any individual, firm or corporation ac-
tually engaged in the business of manufacturing in said county, to abate
all taxes for any year which may hereafter be levied for county or school
purposes by authority of said County Commissioners upon any mechanical
tools or implements, whether worked by hand or steam, or other motive
power, or upon machinery, manufacturing apparatus or engines owned by
such industrial firm or corporation, and actually employed and used in
'the business of manufacturing in said county, and which would be prop-
erly subject to valuation and taxation therein; provided, such abatement
of taxes in any year shall be extended to all persons, firms and corpora-
tions engaged in said county in the branch or branches of manufacturing
industry proposed to be benefited by the provisions of this section, and
so abated by them for such year; and provided further, that application
for such abatement in any year, as aforesaid, shall be made and verified
to the satisfaction of said County Commissioners, by the oath of the party
applying for the same, and other satisfactory evidence, before the annual
revision and correction of the tax list in such year, and not afterwards,
and said County Commissioners shall keep a record of all such abate-
ments made by them, as aforesaid, which shall be open to the inspection
of the public, and shall, in each year, publish in some of the newspapers
published in said county, under their contract for public printing, a full
list of such abatements allowed for such year.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 126. 1892, ch. 403. 1896, ch. 340. 1914 Code, sec. 174.

230. Nothing contained in the preceding section shall be construed to
authorize any abatement of taxes levied upon property which is properly
assessable and taxable as real estate, nor shall be construed to authorize
any abatement of taxes, as provided in said section, for a longer period
than one year, for which such application is so made.

1894, ch. 434. 1896, ch. 269. 1914 Code, sec. 175.

231. The Clerk of the Court, the Register of Wills, the Sheriff, the
Board of County School Commissioners, the officers of registration, the