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taxes, and the said successor, upon delivery to him of the bills aforesaid,
is empowered and required to collect and enforce the payment of said
taxes as hereinbefore provided, and in all cases where a city treasurer
has taken steps for the enforcement of the payment of said taxes, and his
term of office shall expire before the collection of said taxes or before said
proceedings are completed, his successor is empowered and required to
continue and complete said proceedings for the enforcement of the pay-
ment of said taxes, and to collect the same, and shall receive the commis-
sion allowed upon delinquent taxes, and is hereby clothed with all the
power and authority in law had by the retired Treasurer during his term
of office for the purposes aforesaid.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 321.

316. The Mayor and City Council shall annually, before the first day
of July, levy such sum as they may deem sufficient to meet the running
expenses of the City for the current fiscal year, and any additional sum
necessary to pay interest on the debt or any other outstanding obligation
of the City. They shall in no year contract a floating debt of more than
one thousand dollars in excess of the levy for that year, and at no time
shall the aggregate sum of said floating debt exceed five thousand dollars.
Whenever they make a levy they shall do so, item by item, specifying the
department for which the levy is made and the amount to be expended
iherein.

Havre de Grace v. Bauer, 152 Md. 521.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 322.

317. Taxes shall be due as soon as they are levied, and if not paid
on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year in which they
are levied shall bear interest from that date at the rate of six per cent.
per annum, and at any time after the second Monday in April next suc-
ceeding the date of the levy, and not before, payment may be enforced
by sale as herein provided. On all taxes paid after the levy and before
the first day of January following, discounts will be allowed as follows:
If paid in September, five per cent.; and if paid in October, four per
cent.; if paid in November, three per cent.; if paid in December, two
per cent.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 323.

318. Nothing in this Article shall be taken or understood as impairing
the duties and obligations of collectors of city taxes heretofore appointed
in regard to the levies now in their hands for collection, but such col-
lectors shall proceed to complete such collections under the existing pro-
visions of law as fully as if this Act had not passed.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 324.

319. The Mayor and City Council may lay out and continue to the
Susquehanna River and the basin of the Tidewater Canal, the streets