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good order of the community, and for protection of the lives
and property of the citizens and inhabitants of said city, and
for the suppression, abatement and discontinuance of nuisances
within the limits of said city; for the purpose of carrying out
the aforegoing powers the Mayor and Council may pass any
and all ordinances and by-laws from time to time deemed
necessary, and may enforce and insure the observance of such
by-laws and ordinances in addition to the usual action of debt
or such other civil remedies as may exist in such, cases by law
for the recovery of fees, fines and penalties thereto affixed, they
may affix thereto reasonable penalty for default of payment of
any fine and cost imposed for a violation of any ordinance or
by-law.

158P. And be it enacted, That to encourage manufacturers
in the City of Salisbury, the Mayor and Council are authorized
when they see fit so to do, to exempt the plant of any manu-
facturing company or association hereafter located within the
corporate limits of said City from taxation for corporate pur-
poses for a period not exceeding five years but any ordinance,
resolution or contract which exempts any property, except such
as a manufacturing plant or for a period longer than five
years, shall be absolutely null and void in all respect whatever.

158Q. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
of Wicomico County may levy upon the taxable property of
Wicomico county and pay over to the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury to be used and expended by said Mayor and Council
exclusively on the Maintenance and Improvement of the
Streets of Salisbury aforesaid a sum of money not exceeding
five thousand dollars in any one year.

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

Approved April 11,. 1912.

CHAPTER 637.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the State
Government for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day
of September, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the expenditures in the support of the State
Government for the fiscal year beginning with the first day of
October, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and ending with the
thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the