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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Items of State Tax," as said section was amended by the Acts

of the Extraordinary Session of 1902, Chapter I, be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

County Com-

22. The County Commissioners of the several counties of

missioners of
the counties

this State, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are

of the State

directed to levy the State taxes to be collected according to

directed to
levy the State

law and to be apportioned for the year 1904 as follows: a tax

taxes, etc.,
for 1904.

of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars to aid in support

of the public schools to be distributed according to law among

the several counties and City of Baltimore; a tax of one and

three-fourths of one cent on each one hundred dollars to defray

the costs of supplying books for the use of the children in the

public schools of this State ; a tax of one-half of one cent on

each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a

sinking fund for the redemption of the Penitentiary loan ; a

tax of one-eighth of one cent on each one hundred dollars to

meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the redemption

of the Insane Asylum loan; a tax of one-half of one cent on

each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a

sinking fund for the State Building and Improvement Loan ;

a tax of two and seven-eighths cents on each one hundred dol-

lars to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the re-

demption of the Consolidated Loan of 1899; 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

State Loan of 1902 ; and a tax of one cent on each one hundred

dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the

redemption of the Public Buildings Loan, making an aggregate

of twenty-two and one-half cents on each one hundred dollars ;

and the Comptroller of the Treasury shall levy the same State

taxes on the shares of capital stock of all banks, State and

national, and other incorporated institutions and companies of

this State, the shares of whose capital stock are liable by law

to assessment and taxation. The County Commissioners of

the several counties of this State and the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore are directed to levy the State taxes to

Apportionment
for 1905.

be collected according to law, and to be apportioned for the

year 1905, and annually thereafter, as follows: a tax of fifteen

cents on each one hundred dollars to aid in support of the public

schools, to be distributed according to law among the several

counties and City of Baltimore ; a tax of one and three-fourths

of one cent on each one hundred dollars to defray the cost of

supplying books for the use of the children in the public

schools of this State ; a tax of one-half of one cent on each one

hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking fund