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upon the gross amount of interest covenanted to be paid each
year to the mortgagee or his assignee by the mortgagor, to be
collected by the proper authorities as other taxes for county
purposes, in the said several above especially enumerated coun-
ties are collected; all of such taxes collected in said several
counties shall be applied exclusively therein to county purposes,
free, clear and discharged from any claim of the State of Mary-
land or its fiscal officers; and the tax hereby levied shall in each
year be due and payable in that one of the above named
counties, in which the mortgage is recorded, and if any mort-
gage is recorded in two or more of said above-named counties
the tax hereby levied shall each year, be paid to the county
wherein the greater portion of the property covered by the
mortgage is located. This section and the five succeeding sec-
tions shall not apply to the remaining counties or Baltimore
City, as to which remaining counties and city the mortgage tax
levied by the Act of 1896, Chapter 120, sections 146A, 146B,
146C, 146D, 146E, 146F, and by the Act of 1898, Chapter 310,
supplemental thereto, is hereby repealed; provided, that nothing
in this act shall apply to, or in any wise effect taxes already
levied.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 116.

AN ACT to prohibit the sale of spirituous or fermented liquor
within two (2) miles of the white school No. 3 in election
district No. 5, Prince George's County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful for the Board of Liquor License
Commissioners, or any other person or persons who may be
authorized by any act of the General Assembly of Maryland, to
issue license for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors in
Prince George's County, Maryland, to issue any such license
to any person or persons or body corporate to sell spirituous or
fermented liquors nearer than two miles in all directions from
the white school No. 3, in election district No. 5, Prince
George's County, Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.