ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tabhshed therein, and for these purposes to grant to said factories

and industries financial aid in such manner as they in their judg-

ment may think will he for best interest of the city, to provide

by ordinances for the abatement of all or any taxes levied by their

authority for any of the purposes of the corporation upon any

mechanical tools or implements whether worked by hand or steam

or other motive power, machinery, manufacturing apparatus or

engines owned by any individual, firm or corporation in said city;

and which shall be actually employed and used in the business of

manufacturing in said city, and upon any of the raw materials 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, occupied for said manufacturing pur-

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pose, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said city to make

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such abatement of taxes levied as aforesaid as may be authorized

tures.

and directed by said mayor and city council; provided, that ap-

plication for such abatement shall be made and verified to the sat-

isfaction 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

vear to the said mayor and city council on or before the first day

of December in each year, and said mayor and city council are

further authorized and empowered for the purpose of inducing

manufactories and manufacturing enterprises to locate their works

and plant and operate the same in said city, to contract with the

owners thereof to exempt for a term of years from all municipal

taxation all such property both real and personal as may be

actually used, occupied and employed for said manufacturing pur-
poses; provided, that such contract shall not provide for said ex-

emption for a larger period than fifty years, and the said mayor and

city council are authorized and empowered to ratify and confirm

any contract made by the said corporation during the year eigh-

teen hundred and eighty-nine with the firm of Faust and Son, to

induce them to locate their shoe factory in said city to the same

extent to which said mayor and city council could under this sec-

tion have made a valid binding contract with said firm.

186. Said scales shall be adjusted at least once in every six

months by the standard for weights for the city of Baltimore,

Scales.

the expenses of which adjustment shall be paid by the inspector.

187. The county commissioners shall be relieved from the care

of the roads, streets and alleys within the corporate limits of the

city of Havre-de-Grace, and the care of the same shall be trans-

ferred to the mayor and city council of Havre-de-Grace; and in