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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 371. AN ACT to provide for the annual levy of State taxes on the real and personal property of this State under the assessment of eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Levy taxes.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of the several counties of this State, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, be and they are hereby directed to levy an annual tax of nine- teeen cents on each hundred dollars of the assess- able property of this State, and to be based upon the assessment of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to be collected in the manner prescribed by the Code of Public General Laws, and to be appor- tioned as provided in the next section.
Amount.	Sec. 2. And be it enacted as aforesaid, That an annual tax of three cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessable property shall be levied for the use of the State, in aid of other sources of reve- nue, for the support of government ; an annual tax of five and one-half cents on each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and to create a sinking fund for the redemption of the Defence or Bounty Loan ; an annual tax of ten cents on each one hundred dollars to aid in the support of free Public Schools, to be distributed among the counties and the city of Baltimore, as provided in the Act es- tablishing Public Schools, and a tax of one-half of one cent on each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the redemp- tion of the bonds of the Southern Relief Loan.
In force.	Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.