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worked by hand or steam, or other motive power, or upon
the machinery, manufacturing apparatus or engines owned by
. such industrial firm or corporation, and actually employed and
used in the business of manufacturing in said county, and which
would be properly subject to valuation and taxation therein, pro-
vided such abatement of taxes in any year shall be extended to
all persons, firms or corporations engaged in the branch or
branches of manufacturing industry proposed to be benefited by
the provisions of this section, and so abated by them for each
year; and provided further, that application for such abatement
in any year as aforesaid shall be made and verified to the satis-
faction of said county commissioners by the oath of the party
applying for the same, or other satisfactory evidence, before the
annual revision and correction of the tax list in such year, and
not afterwards; and said county commissioners shall keep a rec-
ord of all such abatements made by them as aforesaid, and shall
in each year publish in some one of the newspapers published in.
said county a full list of such abatements allowed for such year.

1888, ch. 103.

126. Nothing contained in the preceding section shall be con-
strued to authorize any abatement of taxes levied upon property

which is properly assessable and taxable as real estate; nor shall
be construed to authorize any abatement of taxes, as provided for
in the said section, for a longer period than the one year for

which such application is so made.

CRIER.

P. L. L., (1860, ) art. 2, sec. 88.

127. The crier of the circuit court for Anne Arundel county
shall, in addition to his fees, receive a per diem allowance of the
same amount as the bailiff of said court, for every day the court
sits, either for the despatch of the business of the county or re-
moved cases, either civil or criminal, from other counties, to be
levied and paid in all respects as the allowance of bailiff and
other expenses of the court.