3798 ARTICLE 17.

1924, ch. 390, sec. 6.

269. The County Commissioners of Prince George's County and the
Board of Road Commissioners of said County shall pay to the Town of
Cottage City, or to The Cottage City Commission or to town Treasurer
of said town, three-fourths of all taxes collected for roads and bridges
levied on the property within the limits of said town, and the said sum
so paid shall be expended in repairs and improvements of the streets and
roadways of said town, said payment to include three-fourths of said taxes
so paid on the levy of the year that this charter becomes effective as here-
inafter provided.

1924, ch. 390, sec. 7.

270. (A) The Town of Cottage City and The Cottage City Commis-
sion shall have power to levy, on or before the first day of February of
each year, beginning with the calendar year succeeding the adoption of
this charter, the tax year commencing on the first of July, taxes at the
rate of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessable value
of real and personal property within said town, based on the State and
county assessments for all purposes; and all taxes so levied shall be a
lien on any and all property of the person, firm, partnership, company,
association or corporation against whom they may be levied; and the taxes
for each year shall be payable on the first day of July next succeeding
the levy thereof and shall be in arrears and subject to a legal interest from
and after that date.

(B) The taxes provided for in paragraph A of this section shall be
levied by ordinance enacted by The Cottage City Commission, and any
such ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after the date of the
enactment of the same. And nothing contained in Section 272 of this
Article shall apply to any ordinance so levying such taxes, the intent of
this Section 270 being that The Cottage City Commission shall have
power, and it shall be the duty of said Commission, to enact such ordi-
nances levying such taxes without submitting any such ordinance to a vote
of the residents of said town, and that any such ordinance so levying such
taxes shall be in force immediately upon the enactment of such ordinance.

(C) A copy of any such ordinance so levying such taxes shall be open
to public inspection.

1924, ch. 390, sec. 8.

271. (A) It shall be the duty of the town Treasurer of the Town of
Cottage City to collect and receive all taxes and other moneys of, and due
to, said town, and to keep a record of each item.

(B) Said town Treasurer shall deposit all town funds coming into his
hands, together with all such interest accruing thereon, in such depository
or depositories as The Cottage City Commission may, by resolution, select
to the credit of the Town of Cottage City by —————— The Cottage City
Treasurer.