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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, said John W. Massie has departed this life intestate,

and letters of administration have been granted upon his estate

to his daughter Virginia C. Massie; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the treasurer of the State be and he is hereby directed upon

the warrant of the comptroller therefor, which warrant he is

hereby authorized, to draw to pay to Virginia C. Massie, adminis-

tratrix of John W. Massie, deceased, the sum of sixty-five dollars

To pay

and sixty-three cents, the same being taxes on commissions by

said Massie as executor of Winfield M. Simpson, deceased, erro-

neously paid to the register of wills of Baltimore city on the

nineteenth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-

seven, as taxes on commissions in accordance with section ninety-

seven, of article eighty-one, of the Code of Public General Laws

of the State of Maryland, and which said sum has been covered

into the treasury.

Effective.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 242.

AN ACT to amend article fifteen, of the declaration of rights of

the constitution of this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Three-fifths of all the members of the two houses concurring,

To amend.

that the following article be and the same is hereby proposed as

an amendment to article fifteen, of the declaration of rights of the

constitution of this State, and if adopted by the legal and qualified

voters thereof as herein provided, it shall supersede and stand in

the place and stead of article fifteen of the declaration of rights

of said constitution.

ARTICLE 15. All taxes ought to be uniform upon the same kinds

of property or class of subjects and should be levied and collected

under general laws, but the General Assembly may by general

laws exempt from taxation all public property used for public

Taxes.

purposes, all churches or buildings used exclusively for public

worship and the furniture contained therein and the parsonages

connected therewith, burying grounds not used for private or

corporate profit, all purely charitable or benevolent institutions,

literary or educational institutions, with the furniture and equip-

ment contained in such charitable, benevolent, literary or educa-

tional institutions, and the grounds appurtenant to such churches,

houses of public worship, charitable or benevolent, literary or