ART. 13.] HAVRE DE GRACE. 1351

1878, ch. 440.

180. In case of a tie vote in the city council upon any ques-
tion whatever, the mayor shall have the right to vote, and shall
decide the question in dispute.

Ibid.

181. The mayor and city council, if they deem it necessary,
may appoint counsel to the corporation, and may allow him such
compensation as they may think proper for his services, not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars per annum.

Ibid.

182. Neglect or non-user shall not work a forfeiture of the
charter of said city, as contained in this sub-title of this article.

1880, ch. 169.

183. The mayor and city council are authorized and em-
powered, whenever it shall seem expedient for the encouragement
of the growth and development of manufacturers and manufac-
turing industry in said city, to provide by general ordinance for
the abatement of any or all taxes levied by their authority for
any of the corporate uses thereof, 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
properly 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, or upon any of the raw material or stock owned and
used by said individuals, firms or corporations, in and for the
purpose of the manufacturing business in which they are engaged,
and not kept or offered, or intended to be offered for sale, in its
said raw or manufactured condition, and upon all real estate
actually used and occupied for the said manufacturing purposes ;
and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said city to make suck
abatement of taxes levied as aforesaid as may be authorized and
directed by said mayor and city council; provided, that applica-
tion for such abatement shall be made and verified to the satisfac-
tion of said mayor and city council, by the oath of the party
Applying for the same, or other satisfactory evidence, before the