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arising trom the manner in which said levy was made, therefore, it enacts that the
levy of the state tax made by the county commissioners of Allegany county, for the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, of twelve cents on the one hundred dollars,
on the basis of the assessment of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, instead
of twenty cents on the one hundred dollars on the basis of the assessment of eighteen
hundred and fifty-two, be and the same h hereby made valid and binding to all
intents and purposes. That all other acts heretofore passed by the general assembly
of Maryland, inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed and
declared inoperative so far as Allegany county is concerned.

In force and approved February 26, 1868.

BANKS. 1868, c. 239 enacts the following:	'
4. All banking corporations or institutions, whether chartered by this state or doing business therein, shall, on the first Monday in January, in each and every year, annually pay or cause to be paid to the treasurer of the state, the sum of twenty cents on every one hundred dollars of the capital of said bank or insti- tution then actually paid in, to be applied by said treasurer in augmentation of the free school fund of	1868 c. 230 Assessment for public schools.
the state, provided that nothing in this act shall be con- strued to require those banks or other institutions in	Proviso.
the state, which now pay the free school fund tax, under their existing charter, to pay any other or addi- tional tax for the same purpose.	Free school fund tax.
5. In the event of any such bank or institution fail- ing to pay the tax herein imposed, annually, on the day limited, that the Fame shall be recovered by suit at law, to be instituted by the attorney general of the state, in the name of the state. In force and approved March 30, 1S6S.	Recovery of tax by law.

COLLECTORS.

1868, c 366 repeals sections 33, 34, 35 and 39, as amended by 1865, c. 155, [Sup. 256,]
and section 75 of this article, and enacts the following in lieu thereof

33. The county commissioners in the several coun- ties and the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall, on the first Tuesday in April in each year, or as soon

18138, c 36C. Appointment of collectors by county com- missioners, &c.