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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

County Commissioners for the payment of the

principal of said bonds, shall be collected by the

collector or collectors, or other officer or officers,

who may by law be authorized to collect the State

taxes, or in case in any year no State tax shall be

levied by law, then by such officer or officers as may

by law be authorized to collect the county taxes,

and such officer or officers shall pay the amount of

such taxes eo levied, for the principal of said bonds

into the Treasury of the State, as State taxes are now

or may hereafter be required by law to be paid ; and

the bonds of such collector or collectors, or other

officer or officers, shall be liable for the payment of

the same.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the County Com-

Vote the stock.

missioners of the said county or a majority of them,

are hereby empowered to vote the stock so to be

subscribed for, at any meeting of the stockholders of

the said company, either in person or by proxy, under

such conditions as the private stockholders may be

authorized to vote their individual stock.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the rate of tax to

Hate of tax

be levied upon the assessable property of said county,

for the payment of the principal and interest of the

said bonds, shall not exceed in any year fifteen cents

on the one hundred dollars.

Advertised

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall be

advertised in the newspaper or newspapers published

in Harford county, for two months preceding the

next election, to be held tor members of the House

of Delegates, and be subject to the approval of a

majority of all the members elected to each House

of the General Assembly of Maryland, at its next

session after said election.

Approved, this 11th day of April, 1874.