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their date, unless such proceeding shall have been commenced within that
time and be still pending.

Special tax bills and the liens thereof shall be assignable. Every trans-
fer of special tax bills shall be registered in the office of the County Treas-
urer, and no transfer thereof shall be valid and effectual until it is so
registered. Every transfer shall be in writing, and witnessed by the
Treasurer personally, or by one of his deputies, duly acknowledged before
a notary public, or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments and
in each transfer there shall be designated the name of some bank or trust
company located in and doing business in said County, to whom payment
of the said tax bill, or any of the installments thereof, or of any interest
on any installment thereon, may be made at or after maturity; and pay-
ment made to the designated bank or trust company, shall be sufficient to
procure the partial or total entry of satisfaction of such bill, as the case
may be, in the office of the Treasurer on presentation to the Treasurer of
the tax bill, duly receipted, by such designated bank or trust company
showing such payment.

1914, chs. 320 and 746, sec. 4.

906. Said District of Silver Spring Park is defined as follows: To
include the property covered by and known as R. Holt Easly's Sub-Divi-
sion of Silver Spring Park and Easly's and Hill's Sub-Division of Silver
Spring Park, and the land of the Silver Spring National Bank, the land
of Waters, Mason, Matthews, Condict, Woodbury Blair, Woodbury Blair,
Trustee, and Gist Blair, and Gist Blair, Trustee, and of Mary J. Blair,
all of said mentioned land, exclusive of said sub-divisions, being the land
east of the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad south
of the Blair Road and north and west of Chicago avenue, and also includ-
ing the following fringe or strip of land, more or less surrounding or about
the property and land aforesaid, namely a strip of land, one hundred and
fifty feet deep, facing on Bonifant street, and belonging to Shannon &
Helen Thompson, and commencing near the intersection of Easly street
and Bonifant street, and extending to the Brookeville Turnpike, also a
.strip of land, one hundred and fifty feet deep on the west side of the
Brookeville Turnpike and south of the line of the Bonifant street, ex-
tended to the main tracks of the Metropolitan Branch of the B. & O. Rail-
road Company, including the land of said company, of the Blair estate
and of Gist Blair, a strip of land, one hundred and fifty feet deep facing

on the south and east side of Chicago avenue from the right of way of the
Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Chesapeake
avenue, except so much of said last mentioned strip of land as may be in-
cluded in Takoma Park, and a strip of land, one hundred and fifty feet
deep, facing the Blair Road between Chesapeake avenue and Mississippi
avenue. The general boundary of said District of Silver Spring Park
shall be a line including the aforesaid land or proportions and any other

and all land within the said boundary, whether referred to as above, or
not, said boundary beginning at the intersection of a line one hundred and