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BALTIMORE CITY.

to lay and collect a direct tax, not exceeding thirty-five cents

in the hundred dollars on the assessment of all lands and

houses in the said city, lying without the present limits of

direct taxation, and within the exterior limits of said city, and

may enforce the payment of the same in the same manner as

is now provided with respect to the direct taxes which the said

corporation is now authorized to impose; and the tenants in

possession shall be liable to the payment of the said tax im-

posed upon the premises occupied by them, without its operat-

ing, however, to alter the nature of contracts between landlords

and tenants.

Money

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the taxes thus levied, after

applied.

deducting the expenses of collection, shall be annually applied

by the corporation of the city of Baltimore, in making and re-

pairing such of the public highways and bridges within the

limits subject to this present assessment, as they shall deem

most important to the public necessity and convenience ; and

the said corporation shall have power to provide by ordinance

for the collection and expenditure of said tax, in such manner

as they may deem advisable.

Limitation'

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this law shall continue in

force until the first day of November, eighteen hundred and

twenty-eight, and until the end of the next session of the gene-

ral assembly which shall happen thereafter.

Appropria-

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That no further sum than two

tion for
bridges

hundred dollars shall be appropriated in any one year, to the

limited.

erection of any one bridge within the limits aforesaid.

Re-enacted by 1827, ch. 87, and made perpetual by 1836, ch. 120.

AN ACT to continue in force an Act passed at December session, eighteen

hundred and twenty-three, chapter one hundred and eighty-five, entitled,

an Act to repair the Highways and Bridges in certain parts of the City

of Baltimore.— 1827, ch. 87.

Power to

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

levy.

That hereafter the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall

have power to lay and collect a direct tax, not exceeding fifty

cents in the hundred dollars, on the assessment of all lands and

houses in the said city, lying without the present limits of direct

taxation, and within the exterior limits of said city, for the pur-

poses, and to be applied in the manner as prescribed in an act

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-

three, chapter one hundred and eighty-five, entitled, an act to

repair the highways and bridges in certain parts of the city of

Baltimore, any thing in said act contained to the contrary not-

withstanding.

Limitation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this act and the aforesaid act,

entitled, an act to repair the highways and bridges in certain