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ary line of a field owned by Otho E. Ridgely and wife; thence following
the said western boundary line and the northern boundary line of said
field to a point on the west side of the York Turnpike Road about fifty
yards south of Seminary Avenue, at the division line between the Ridgely
field and the property of J. Clinton Kidd; thence following the west side
of said York Turnpike Road to the place of beginning.

MECHANICS' LIEN.

1902, ch. 432. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 281. 1910, ch. 52, p. 563.
B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 414. 1928, sec. 493.

493. Every building erected and every building repaired, rebuilt or
improved to the extent of one-fourth its value in Baltimore City and in
any of the counties shall be subject to a lien for the payment of all debts.
contracted for, work clone for, or about the same and in the counties.
Every such building shall also be subject to a lien for the payment of all
debts contracted for, materials furnished for or about the same.

Dunn v. Bryan, 116 Md. 248.

See Art. 63 of Annotated Code.

MONUMENTAL.

1924, ch. 443. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 494.

494. The Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County, at
the time of the annual tax levy beginning with the levy for the year 1925,
are hereby authorized, directed and required to make a special annual levy
of such amount as may be mentioned in the petition hereinafter referred
to on each one hundred dollars of the whole assessable property situate
in the village of Monumental, in Baltimore County, to be collected as other
county taxes in said county are collected, and said special annual levy
to be paid over by the said County Commissioners to the treasurer of the
Monumental Improvement Association of Baltimore County, to be used
by said Association exclusively for the betterment of the roads, sidewalks,
sanitary conditions, drainage and other improvements in said village of
Monumental, provided 10 per cent, or more of the persons residing in said
Village of Monumental and owning such taxable real or personal prop-
erty in said village shall, prior to each annual levy, petition the said
County Commissioners thereby asking that special levy be made, and in
said petition mentioning the amount desired to be especially levied, pro-
vided the same shall not exceed the sum of twenty cents on each one hun-
dred dollars of assessable property as aforesaid; provided, however, that
all taxes collected under the provisions of this Act and turned over to
the treasurer of the said Monumental Improvement Association of Bal-
timore County shall be used exclusively by said Improvement Associa-
tion for the betterment of the roads, sidewalk, drainage, sanitary condi-
tions and other improvements within the area as provided for in Section
495 of this Article.