738 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 524]

improvement, or other bonds or indebtedness; and such taxes
when levied shall be a lien upon' the property assessed and
shall be collected as county taxes and collected; or the Mayor
and Council may adopt by ordinance some other mode for the
collection of the same; that the annual levy so made shall be
due and payable on the first day of January next succeeding,
but should any taxpayer desire to pay his, her, their or its
taxes prior to the first day of January, he, she, they, or it
may do so, and the Council shall allow on all taxes paid before
the first day of September a discount of four per cent.; on all
taxes paid before the first day of October a discount of three
per cent.; on all taxes paid before the first day of November
a discount of two per cent.; and on all taxes paid before the
first day of December a discount of one per cent.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts
of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 524.

AN ACT to repeal Section 38 and 39 of Article 20 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Somerset County,"
sub-title "Circuit Court," and re-enact the same, with amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land. That Sections 38 and 39, of Article 20, of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Somerset County," sub-
title "Circuit Court," be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 38. There shall be four terms of the Circuit Court
for Somerset County in each and every year, commencing at
Princess Anne, on the second Monday of the months of Jan-
uary, April and July, and the fourth Monday of September.

SEC. 39. Jurors shall be summoned to the April and Sep-
tember terms of said Court, and the judges of said Court,
whenever in their judgment it may be expedient, may order
twenty-five persons, qualified to act as jurors, to be summoned
to attend the said Court as petit jurors, at its January and
July terms.