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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

factoring apparatus or engines owned by any indi-

vidual 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 unmanufactured 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 such abatement of

taxes levied as aforesaid as may be authorized and

directed by said Mayor and City Council, by ordi-

Abatement to

nance, as aforesaid; provided that application for such
abatement as aforesaid shall be made and verified to

be verified.

the satisfaction of said Mayor and City Council, by

the oath of the party applying for the same, or other
satisfactory evidence before the annual closing of said

tax list in each year, and said clerk shall further

keep a record of all abatements made by them as

aforesaid, and report in writing the aggregate amount
thereof during the year to said Mayor and City

Council on or before the first day of December in

each year.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.