JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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119J. Any manufacturer or dealer who makes or sells, or
offers to sell 'or dispose of, or has in his or her possession,
with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise
comprised of works or movements, and a case or covering
applied or attached thereto, wholly or partially concealing
said works or movements marked, stamped or branded with
the words "coin" or "coin silver," unless said case or cover-
ing shall contain not less than nine hundred one-thousandths
parts of pure silver, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Articles of
works or
movements,
etc., stamped
coin silver.

119K. Every person, firm, corporation or association guilty
of a violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or imprisonment in a common jail not exceed-
ing one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1900.
Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 399.
AN ACT to allow the Mayor and City Council to appeal to
the Comptroller of the State Treasury and State Treasurer
from decisions of the Tax Commissioners.

Penalty
for violation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the. General Assembly of Mary-
land, That if the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore claim
to be aggrieved by any decision of the State Tax Commis-
sioner upon any valuation and assessment, the said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore may appeal from said decision
to the Comptroller of the Treasury and State Treasurer. If
no such appeal be taken within thirty days from any decision
of the Tax Commissioner, the said valuation and assessment
shall be final; but if such appeal shall be taken within thirty
days from any decision, there shall be stated in such appeal
the reasons and grounds of such appeal; and said Comptroller
and Treasurer shall consider the same, and if the Comp-
troller and Treasurer shall both be of the opinion that such
valuation and assessment so made by the State Tax
Commissioner is erroneous, and ought to be changed,
they shall change the same accordingly, and the valua-
tion and assessment so agreed upon by the Comptroller
and Treasurer shall be final; but if either the Comptroller or
Treasurer shall agree with the State Tax Commissioner as
to the correctness of the valuation so made by him, then such
appeal shall be dismissed, and the original valuation shall be
and remain as the true valuation.

Mayor and
City Council
of Baltimore
may appeal
from decisions
of State Tax
Commissioner