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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

required for the purpose of remodeling, enlarging or rebuild-

ing the said hall; therefore

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

Sale not valid

land, That the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County

without ap-
proval of

and the Town Commissioners of Centreville be and they are

local lodge of
I. O. O. F.

hereby authorized and empowered to sell, grant and convey,

in fee simple or lease for any term of years, that part of the

public land in the town of Centreville, Queen Anne's County,

State of Maryland, which is occupied or covered by the build-

ing in said town known as the Town Hall, and the land con-

tiguous thereto, to said Saint Tammany Lodge, No. 25,

of the Order of Independent Odd Fellows, body corporate,

or to any other person or body corporate, provided no sale

or lease of the land occupied or covered by said hall shall

be made without the consent of said Saint Tammany Lodge.

Approved April i, 1904.

CHAPTER 222.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections

113, 114, 115 and 116 of Article 81 of the Code of Public

General Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," sub-title "Col-

lateral Inheritance Tax/'

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

Collateral in-

land, That Sections 113, 114, 115 and 116 of Article 81 of the

heritance
tax.

Code of Public General Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes,"

sub-title "Collateral Inheritance Tax," be and the same are

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

113. The amount of said tax shall be a lien on said real

Inheritance
tax a lien on

estate for the period of four years from the date of the death

certain real

of the decedent, who shall have died seized and possessed

estate.

thereof.

114. The executor or administrator shall collect the same

Duty of exe-

from the parties liable to pay said tax or their legal representa-

cutor or ad-
ministrator.

tives within thirteen months from the date of his administra-

tion, and pay the same to the Register of Wills of the county

or city in which administration is granted; and if the said

parties shall neglect or fail to pay the same within that time,

the Orphans' Court of the said county or city shall order the

executor or administrator to sell for cash so much of said

real estate as may be necessary to pay said tax and all the

expenses of said sale, including the commissions of the exe-