902 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 19,

The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the
day,

The House proceeded to the consideration of

The hill entitled an Act to repeal Article 81, of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, entitled
"Revenue and Taxes," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

Said bill being upon a second reading,
Mr. Watkins submitted the following amendment:
AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

SECTION. 3. The provisions of the preceding section shall
not apply to property belonging to the United States, to this
State, or any county or incorporated city or town of this
State, to houses for public worship, including parsonages,
with the grounds appurtenant thereto and necessary for the
use thereof, all grave-yards, cemeteries and burying-grounds,
the crops and produce of lands in the hands of the producer
or his agent, mortgages on real estate, all shares of the cap-
ital stock of any Building Association, Land or Loan Com-
pany or Corporation of which the funds and capital stock are
invested in mortgage on real or leasehold property subject
to taxation, to the extent of such investments, provisio s for
the use and consumption of the person to whom the same shall
belong and his family, private libraries not kept for sale,
plantation utensils, the working tools of mechanics and man-
ufacturers moved or worked by hand, and the articles manu-
factured by them whilst in their possession, or that of their
agents, unsold, wearing-apparel of every description, fish at
the time fishermen may be employed in catching, salting and
packing the same, or while they remain in their possession or
that of their agents unsold, household manufactures, the Ma-
sonic Temple in the City of Baltimore and lot on which the
same stands, and the stock issued for the building of the
same, the Bible-House, Tract-House and German Protestant
Orphans' Association Building, in the City of Baltimore; the
bridge over the Potomac River, between Shepherdstown and
Washington county, all judgments, notes, securities and
other property belonging to any bank or other incorporated
Institution of this State paying its taxes on its shares of
capital stock, public hospitals, asylums and other incorpo-
rated literary, charitable or benevolent institutions for the
relief of the indigent or afflicted, and the lots or lands
appurtenant, not exceeding forty acres, with all their furni-
ture and equipments, libraries and scientific instruments,
and stocks and securities held by such literary, charitable
or benevolent Institutions, shall be exempt from taxation for
State or local purposes; Provided, The whole value of such