JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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lums, charitable or benevolent institutions, 80 far at

used for the benefit of the indigent and afflicted, and

the ground which the buildings used as such hos-

pitals, asylums, charitable or benevolent institutions,

shall actually cover, and the equipments owned by

such corporations or institutions.

SECTION 4. No person who is not assessed to the

sum of at least one hundred dollars, shall be re-

Exempt.

quired to pay any tax.

SECTION 21. The county commissioners of the

several counties of this State, and the Mayor and

Directed to

City Council of Baltimore city, are hereby directed to

levy annually

levy annually the State taxes to be collected accord-

ing to law, and to be apportioned as follows; a tax

of five and a-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 the public schools, to be

Public schools

distributed according to law among the several

counties and the City of Baltimore; a tax of three-

fourths of one cent on each one hundred dollars, to

meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the

redemption of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum loan; a

Deaf and

tax of three-fourths of one cent on each one hundred

dumb asylum.

dollars, to meet the interest and create a sinking

fund for the redemption of the Maryland Hospital
loan, and such other tax or taxes as may be here-

Maryland
Hospital loan.

after from time to time prescribed by law; and the

Comptroller of the Treasury shall annually levy the

same State taxes on the shares of capital stock of all

banks, State or National, and other incorporated

institutions and companies in this State, the shares

of whose capital stock are by law liable to assess-

ment and taxation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

i In force.

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.