ART. 11.] FREDERICK. 1165

thority of said mayor and aldermen, or any ordinance thereof,
for any of the corporate uses thereof, or for the exemption from
taxation for municipal purposes upon any mechanical tools or
implements, whether worked by hand or by steam, or other
motive power, machinery, manufacturing apparatus or engines-
owned by any individual, firm or corporation, in said city, and
property subject to valuation and taxation therein, which said
tools, implements, machinery, apparatus or engines, shall be-
actually employed and used in the business of manufacturing-
in said city; provided, such abatement or exemption shall be
extended to all persons, firms or corporations engaged in the
branch of manufacturing industry proposed to be benefited by
ordinance under the provisions of this section.

1883, ch. 436.

267. The costs incurred in appeals from the decision of any
officer of registration for the aldermanic district of Frederick
city, in which the circuit court for Frederick county, or any judge
thereof, may order the party taking such appeal to be registered,
shall be paid by the mayor and aldermen.

1888, ch 44. 1888, ch. 195.

268. The mayor and aldermen of Frederick are authorized to
issue bonds in the name of the said municipal corporation to an
amount not exceeding five hundred and twelve thousand five
hundred dollars, the amount of the present outstanding bonds
heretofore issued by said municipal corporation. The bonds
issued under the provisions of this section shall be issued in sums
of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand,
dollars each, and each of said bonds shall be payable thirty years
after date to bearer, redeemable, however, at the pleasure of said
mayor and aldermen of Frederick at any time after the expiration
of fifteen years from their respective dates, and shall bear interest
in the meantime at the rate of four per centum per annum, pay-
able semi-annually, according to the tenor of the coupons for said
interest to be attached to said bonds, and the said bonds are
exempted from municipal and county taxation; provided, how-
ever, that said bonds shall not be sold for less than par or the
face value thereof in cash current money.