EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 236 of Article 22 of the Code of Public

Hancock,
Washington

Local Laws, title "Washington County," sub-title "Hancock,"

County,

as enacted by Chapter 478 of the Acts of the General As-

sembly of Maryland of the year 1892, be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to

read as follows :

236. All property within the limits of Hancock, or what

Property taxed

may have a situs there by reason of the residence of the owner

within town
limits to be

therein, shall be taxed for municipal purposes, and the assess-

taxed for ,
municipal

ment for town purposes shall be the same as that for State

purposes.

and county purposes ; and in case any real estate assessed for

State and county purposes be divided by the town boundaries,

the Burgess and Commissioners of Hancock shall place a

fair valuation upon that contained within the town limits,

and make a just apportionment of said assessment; should

any property liable to be taxed for town purposes be omitted

in the county assessment the said Burgess and Commissioners

shall have power to include said property in the town assess-

ment, and impose a just valuation thereon; and the said Bur-

gess and Commissioners shall annually levy on the assessable

property of the town all needful taxes not exceeding' in amount

one hundred cents on every one hundred dollars worth of

assessable property for municipal purposes, and such further

sums that are now or may hereafter be authorized by law for

the liquidation of indebtedness; and the said Burgess and

Commissioners may appoint a collector to collect such taxes.

prescribe his term of office, duties, fix his compensation and

exact bond from him for the faithful discharge of his duties ;

and such collector shall pay over such taxes as collected by

him to the said Burgess and Commissioners; any taxes levied

Taxes to be
collected as

in pursuance of the provisions of this section shall be a lien

State and City
taxes are col-

as now provided by law and shall be collected as State and

lected.

county taxes are collected.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 692.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General

Assembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, bequests and de-

vises contained in the last wills and testaments of certain

persons deceased, and also to certain gifts, grants, sales,