5250 ARTICLE 24.

all property from time to time for the performance of the duties imposed
by this Act in making said survey and in order to erect and maintain
suitable markers for the boundaries of the municipality. It shall cause
two copies of said survey and the plat thereof to be made, which shall
also show the old boundary lines of the town of Pocomoke City, one of
which shall be kept among the records of the Mayor and Council of Poco-
moke City and the other shall be returned to and be recorded in the office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County; copies of said
plats duly certified by the keepers of said records, respectively, and under
their respective seals of office, shall be admitted as evidence in all courts
of this State. Any person interfering with the agents, servants or em-
ployees of the said Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City, or any of them,
in the discharge of the duties imposed by this section, or removing or in-
terfering with said boundary stones or posts planted as aforesaid, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of not less than ten
dollars ($10.00) or more than fifty dollars ($50.00), to be recovered
by an action in the Circuit Court for Worcester County or before any
Justice of the Peace thereof.

1927, ch. 445, sec. 245C.

194. That the territory hereby added to the corporate limits of the
town of Pocomoke City is hereby declared to be a taxable district and
the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City shall have full power to assess,
levy and collect within said taxable district any and all taxes whatsoever
which it has or shall be authorized to assess, levy or collect within the tax-
able limits of the town of Pocomoke City as it heretofore existed, subject,
however, to the following limitations, restrictions and conditions:

(a) No taxes shall be levied or collected for municipal purposes on any
property within said district until the year 1928.

(b) The tax rate on all personal property within said district, except
farming implements and stock used exclusively for farming purposes,
which are hereinafter exempted from municipal taxation, shall be twenty-
five cents (25c.) on every one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessed per-
sonal property until December 31, 1932, and from and after said date
the tax rate on said personal property shall be the same as the tax rate

on personal property within the old corporate limits of Pocomoke City,
(c) The tax rate on real property, improved by dwellings or other
buildings, within said district shall not exceed twenty-five cents (25c.)
on every one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessed property for a period
of ten (10) years accounting from the first day of January, 1928, unless
within said period of ten (10) years water and sewer mains shall be laid
adjacent to said improved real property under one or more streets on which
said improved real property is situated and unless street lights shall be
erected and maintained adjacent to said improved real property on one
or more streets on which said improved real property is situated or unless
said water and sewer mains be laid and street lights be erected and main-
tained as aforesaid on the street nearest said improved real property pro-