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and certified copies of said plat shall be admitted ns
evidence In all the courts of this State; and the said
Mayor and City Council shall pay the said commis-
sioners five dollars per day for the time they may be
engaged in the discharge of their datics, and shall
pay all other expenses that may be incurred in carry-
ing out the provisions of this act.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That when the said an-
nexation shall have been effected, as required by this	Divide an-
act, that the Mayor and City Conncil of Baltimore	nexed portion.
shall cause the said portion so annexed to be divided
and laid out into such number of new wards as to
give to each as nearly as may be possible the same
number of inhabitants as are required for the pres-
ent wards of the city, and to have an even number
of wards; and such division shall from time to time
be altered and corrected as is provided for the pres-
ent wards of Baltimore city, and for each new ward
there shall be one member of the First Branch of the
City Council, and for all two wards created there shall
be one member of the Second Branch of the City
Council, qualified and selected as from the present
wards.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That after said annexa-
tion, as required by this act, that the said new wards	New words to be laid off
to be laid off by this act and the inhabitants thereof,
shall in all respects, and to all intent and purposes,
be subject to the powers, jurisdiction, authority
vested or to be vested by law in the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore and in the corporation of
said city, and to all ordinances of the Mayor and
City Council now in force or hereafter to be en-
acted ; and said portion so annexed, shall in all rc:
spects, be taken and considered as part of said city
and corporation; provided, that all property, real and
personal, having its sites within the territory so to be	Proviso
annexed, shall be assessed for the purposes of city
taxation, at one-half of the amount of its cash value
for the period of ten years after the passage of this
act, except where five houses are actually built upon
any square or block of ground in said territory so
annexed, and front upon a paved street, then the said
property so built on, and the personal property of
the person resident in said houses shall be subject to.
taxation in the same manner as if said property so built