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	ordinance thereof, for any of the corporate uses
	thereof, upon any mechanical tools or implements,
	whether worked by hand or by steam or other mo-
	tive power, machinery, manufacturing apparatus,
	or engines owned by any individual, firm or corpora-
	tion 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 ; and it shall be the duty of the judges
	of the Appeal Tax Court of said city to make such	Who to make
	abatements of taxes levied as aforesaid as may be	abatements.
	authorized and directed by said Mayor and City
	Council by ordinance as aforesaid; provided such
	abatement shall be extended to all persons, firms or
	corporations engaged in the branch or branches of
	manufacturing industry proposed to be benefitted by ordinance under the provisions of this act ; provided further, that application for such abatement as afore-
	said shall be made and verified to the satisfaction of	Verified by
	said judges by the oath of the party applying for the	oath.
	same, or other satisfactory evidence, before the an-
	nual revision and correction of the tax lists in each
	year, which said judges of the Appeal Tax Court are
	by law required to make, shall be completed and
	returned by said judges to the tax department of
	said city, and not afterwards ; and said judges shall
	further keep a record of all abatements made by
	them as aforesaid, and report in writing the aggre-
	gate amount thereof daring the year to said Mayor
	and City Council on or before the fifteenth day of
	March in each year.
	SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act	Effective.
	shall take effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 10, 1880.