JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

and forty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, to be designated as Section 81C, and to read as follows:

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81C. The whole of the money received by the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas in the City of Baltimore for the
licenses granted shall be paid over quarterly by the said Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas to the State as now provided
by law, and when so paid over the Comptroller of the Treas-
ury shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State
of Maryland in favor of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more for three-quarters thereof, to be applied to the general
use of said city.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900,

CHAPTER 447.
AN ACT to encourage the establishment and development
of manufactures and manufacturing industries in Worcester
County.

Certain
amount liquor
license from
clubs, etc.,
returned to
City of
Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Worcester County
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever
it shall seem expedient for the encouragement of the estab-
lishment of manufactures and manufacturing industries in
said county, to provide by ordinance for the exemption from
taxation for county purposes for any certain period of time in
their discretion deemed advisable, any lands and buildings
thereon in said county used by such manufacturers in the
usual conduct of their manufacturing business, and any
mechanical tools or implements, whether worked by hand or
steam or other motive power, machinery, manufacturing appa-
ratus or engines owned by any individual, firm or corporation
in said county, and properly subject to valuation and taxation
therein, which said tools, implements, machinery, apparatus
or engines shall be actually employed and used ia the busi-
ness of manufacturing in said county.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.

Worcester co.
manufacturing
industries
exempt from
taxation far
certain period.