EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 390.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 182D, 182E, 182F, 182G and 183H

of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Washington

County," sub-title "Hagerstown," as enacted by Chapter 171

of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland at the Jan-

uary Session of the year 189G ; and to re-enact with amend-

ments said Section 182D so as to read as hereinafter set

forth providing for the payment by the Mayor and Council

of Hagerstown of its portion of the cost of the paving of any

street, lane, or alley or part thereof.

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

Hagerstown,

land, That Sections 182D, 182E. 182F, 182G and 182H of the

Washing-
ton Coun-

Code of Public Local Laws, title, "Washington County," sub-

ty. Md.

title "Hagerstown," as enacted by Chapter 171 of the Acts of

the General Assembly of Maryland at its January Session of the

year 1896, be and the same are hereby repealed, and said Sec-

tion 182D is hereby re-enacted with amendments so as to read

as follows :

182D. Whenever the Mayor and Council shall proceed to ex-

Exercising

ercise the powers vested in them by Sections 182A and 182B

powers

vested.

of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Wash-

ington County," sub-title "Hagerstown," and shall provide by

general or special ordinance for paving any street, lane, or al-

ley, or part thereof, that portion of the cost paving of said

street, lane, alley or part thereof, which shall devolve upon the

Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, shall be provided for in

manner following, that is to say, after the entire cost of

paving said street, lane, alley or part thereof has been fully de-

termined and the portion of the cost thereof which the Mayor

and Council shall be obliged to pay been fully and definitely as-

certained and determined and before work is begun, the said

Mayor and Council is authorized and empowered to levy on

the assessable property of the town a tax not exceeding in

amount ten cents on every hundred dollars' worth of assessable

property in any one year, to be collected as other city taxes are

collected, to pay the Mayor and Council's due and proper por-

tion of said cost, as previously ascertained, for paving said

street, lane, or alley, or any portion thereof, and the said lew

for the purpose aforesaid shall only be made once in any one

year, and that shall be at the time of the making of the annual

Annual levy

levy of taxes by the said Mayor and Council and be included

of taxes.

therein.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.