EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 405.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 14GA, 146GB, 146C, 146D, 14GDL,

146E, 140EL and 146F of Article 81 of the Code of Public

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

gages," as amended by Chapter 120 of the Acts of Assembly.

passed at the January Session of 1896, by Chapter 313 of the

Acts of Assembly, passed at the January Session of 1898, and

by Chapter 26 of the Acts of Assembly, passed at the January

Session of 1902, so far as the same apply to Baltimore City,

Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Prince George's, Harford, Charles,

Calvert, Allegany, Cecil, St. Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne,

Caroline, Talbot and Dorchester Counties, and to allow the

several counties, except those hereinbefore named, to collect

the said mortgage tax, and apply it to their own resources.

free from any claim of the State.

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

Sections re-

land, That Sections 146A, 146B, 146C, 146D, 146DL, 146E,

pea led so far
us applying

146EL and 146F of Article 81 of the Code of Public General

to certain

counties.

Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," sub-title "Mortgages," as

amended by Chapter 120 of the Acts of Assembly, passed at

the January Session of 1896, by Chapter 313 of the Acts of

Assembly, passed at the January Session of 1898, and by Chap-

ter 26 of the Acts of Assembly, passed at the January Session

of 1002, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as said

sections apply to Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore,

Prince George's, Harford, Charles, Calvert, Allegany, Cecil,

St. Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne, Caroline, Talbot and Dorchester

Counties, and that said sections shall be and remain in full force

and virtue in law in the several counties of the State of Mary-

land, not hereinbefore excepted ; provided, however, that all

such taxes collected in the said several counties of the State

shall be applied exclusively in the several counties in which

the same are collected to county purposes free, clear and dis-

charged from any claim of the State of Maryland or its fiscal

officers.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.