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ratus or engines owned by such industrial firm or corpora-
tion, and actually employed and used in the business of manu-
facturing in said city, and which would be properly subject to
valuation and taxation therein; provided such abatement of
taxes in any year shall be extended to all persons, firms and
corporations engaged in said city 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 abate-
ment in any year as aforesaid shall be made and verified to
the satisfaction of said Mayor, Counsellor and Aldermen of
the City of Annapolis, 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 Mayor, Counsellor and Aldermen shall
keep a record of all such abatements made by them as afore-
said, which shall be open to the inspection of the public, and
shall in each year publish in some of the newspapers pub-
lished in said city under their contract for public printing a
full list of such abatements allowed for such year; provided
nothing contained in this 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.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 13, 1900.

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter six hundred and fourteen, passed
at January Session of the General Assembly of Maryland,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled an "Act to
empower the State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County,
upon the order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County, to file a Criminal Information and to regulate the
proceedings thereunder:"

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter six hundred and fourteen of the Acts
passed at the January Session of the General Assembly of