298 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

twenty-two shall, respectively, remain as of the same congres-
sional districts of which the territory embraced therein formed a,
part before their said annexation to the city of Baltimore; said
ward twenty-one shall constitute a part of the third legislative-
district, and said ward twenty-two shall constitute a part of the
second legislative district of Baltimore city.

1888, ch. 98.

4. All streets, avenues, or alleys lying in any portion of Balti-
more county which, under the provisions of said act of 1888, chap-
ter 98, became a part of Baltimore city, and which shall have been
legally condemned as streets under the provisions of the acts of
assembly of Maryland relating to streets in Baltimore county, shall
be held to be validly constituted streets of Baltimore city in all re-
spects as if the same had been legally condemned as such by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore; and all proceedings for the
laying off, opening, grading and construction of streets, avenues or
alleys, which shall have been begun under article 3 of the public
local laws, title Baltimore county, sub-title streets, shall be pro-
ceeded with and completed under said article and sub-title.

Ibid.

5. Until the year nineteen hundred, the rate of taxation for
city purposes upon all landed property situated within the said
wards twenty-one and twenty-two, and upon all personal property
liable to taxation in said wards, whether owned by persons, cor-
porations or otherwise, and upon which taxes would be paid to
Baltimore county if said territory had not been annexed to the
said city, shall at no time exceed the tax rate of Baltimore
county for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and
until the year nineteen hundred there shall not be, for the pur-
poses of city taxation, any increase in the present assessment of
such property as it is now assessed; and all property in the said
wards which is not now assessed, but which may be within the
same period liable to assessment, shall be assessed at the same rate
as similar property is now assessed in said wards; and during the
said period, up to the year nineteen hundred, the city of Balti-
more shall expend within said wards an amount at least equal to
the amount of revenue derived from taxation on the basis herein