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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

on the first Monday of May, 1904, and on the same day every

Mayor and
Council.

second year thereafter, elect by ballot one person to be Mayor,

and likewise, on the first Monday in May, 1904, elect by ballot

five persons to be City Councilmen, and on the same day every

year thereafter elect by ballot three persons as Councilmen to

succeed those whose term of office is about to expire, and it

shall be the duty of the three newly-elected Councilmen at

their first regular meeting to designate by lot two of their

number to remain in office for two years.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 154.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 49 and 50 of Article 25 of the

Public General Laws of Maryland, title "County Commis-

sioners," sub-title. "Draining Lands," as amended by the

Act of 1892, Chapter 649, so far as the same apply to tax

ditches or drains situate wholly within Somerset County,

and to enact in lieu thereof certain provisions applicable to

tax ditches or drains situate wholly within said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Draining

land, That Sections 49 and 50 of Article 25 of the Public

lands.

General Laws of Maryland, title "County Commissioners,"

sub-title "Draining Lands," as amended by the Acts of 1892,

Chapter 649, so far as the same apply to tax ditches and drains

situate wholly within Somerset County, be and the same are

hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following sections be

and the same are hereby enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the County Commissioners

Taxes levied

of Somerset County shall deliver to the Treasurer a statement

for making

of the taxes levied for making said ditches, wholly within said

ditches.

county, with the sums which each person is bound to pay, and

such tax or assessment made and returned to and confirmed

by said County Commissioners shall remain in full force for

the term of twenty years from such confirmation, and shall be

the proportion or basis upon which other and further taxes

may be levied by the managers for all necessary purposes for

cutting and making or for cleaning and repairing such ditches.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after a lapse of twenty

years a new assessment may be had by application of ten or