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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ers of Caroline county are herebj authorized, re-

quired and directed to pay to the County Com-

missioners of Dorchester county the sum of six

hundred and fourteen dollars, as the estimated aud

agreed proportional share of said bonded debt of

Dorchester county, properly a burden upon that

part of the taxable property of the last named

county hereby transferred to Caroline county, and

the County Commissioners of Caroline county are

Authorized

hereby authorized and directed, at their next levy,

to levy.

after the transfer of territory hereby proposed is

ratified by the electors thereof, to levy upon all

the taxable property of Caroline county, including

the property embraced in the territory transferred

to said last named county by this act, a sum suf-

ficient to pay to the County Commissioners of

Dorchester county the moneys authorized and di-

rected to be paid to them by the former under the

provisions of this act.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this

act contained shall in any manner affect, alter or

Not to impair

impair the right of any ex-tax collector or the

right.

present tax collector, or the tax collector for the

collection of taxes to be levied for the year eigh-

teen hundred and eighty in and for said district

number twelve of Dorchester county, to collect all

taxes heretofore levied, or to be levied for the year

eighteen hundred and eighty, against residents of,

or property embraced in the territory about to be
transferred to Caroline county, in accordance with

the existing laws on the subject, but the same shall

be collected as if this act had not been passed, and

in event of a sale, by any collector, of property

within said limits to enforce the payment of such

taxes, any report of sale shall be made to the Cir-

cuit Court for Dorchester county as if this act had

not been passed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the judges of elec-

tion in said district number twelve of Dorchester

Receive bal-

county shall, at the election of electors for Presi-

lots for elec-
tors.

dent and Vice-President of the United States, in

the fall of eighteen hundred and eighty, receive

the ballot of each citizen voting at said election,