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per year per front foot or lineal foot adjoining or abutting upon the public
highway. On all property embraced in Class B, ten cents (lOc.) per
year per front foot or lineal foot adjoining or abutting upon the public
highway. On all property in Class C, five cents (5c.) per year per front
foot or lineal foot adjoining or abutting upon the public highways. Pro-
vided, however, that in the case of any corner property or property used
only as a private dwelling adjoining or abutting upon two public high-
ways, one in front and the other on the side, two-thirds of the number of
lineal feet of said property abutting on the highway on the side shall be
exempt from any tax tinder this Act. As to all corner property other
than private dwellings one-half of the number of lineal feet of said prop-
erty abutting on the highway on the side shall be exempt from any tax
under this Act.

This Act valid. Special assessments may he levied for Improvements previously
made.

Leser v. Wagner, 120 Md. 671.

Legislature may impose the cost of improving a street on the abutting property
by the front foot rule. Legislative determination that property specially benefited
binding if any reasonable ground to support it.

Bassett v. Ocean City, 118 Md. 115.

1918, ch. 222.

841JJ. The special paving tax levied by the Act of 1912, Chapter 688,
shall not apply to any farm land abutting upon any road or street which
has been or may be paved by the State Roads Commission, within the
limits of Baltimore City as they now exist, or as they may hereafter exist,
until the portions of such farm land abutting upon such road or street
shall have been divided into lots for building purposes, and either built
upon or sold as building lots; and in the event that any lots fronting upon
any of said roads or streets shall have been or shall hereafter be built upon
in such manner that there shall be a frontage of more than one hundred
feet on such road or street to each house so built thereon, then the said
paving tax as to such lots exceeding one hundred feet front to one house
shall be limited to one hundred feet of such front, and the remainder of
such front exceeding one hundred feet shall not be subject to said paving
tax until such time as the same may be built upon; the intent of this pro-
vision being that the paving tax shall not be paid on more than one hun-
dred feet of front on any lot upon which there is not more than one dwell-
ing; provided that nothing in this section shall relieve any land from the
payment of said special paving tax which shall have already become liable
to such payment prior to June 1st, 1918.

PORT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.

1920, ch. 560. sec. 1.

841KK. That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is:
hereby authorized to issue its stock to an amount not exceeding fifty mil-
lion ($50,000,000) dollars, said stock to be issued from time to time and
payable at such times and bearing such rate of interest as the said Mayor