ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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educational institutions and necessary to the convenient use thereof

as the same have been heretofore exempted by law in this State ;

and all other property in this State not so declared exempt may

be taxed, and the General Assembly may, by general law, provide

for a tax on the incomes of citizens of this State; yet fines, duties,

licenses or taxes may properly and justly be imposed or laid with

a political view for good government and the benefit of the com-

munity.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the

said foregoing section hereby proposed as an amendment to article

fifteen, of the declaration of rights of the constitution shall be,

at the next general election held in this State, submitted to the

legal and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or rejection,

in pursuance of the directions contained in article fourteen of the

constitution of this State, and at the said general election the vote

Submitted

on said proposed amendment to the constitution shall be by ballot,

and upon each ballot there shall be written or printed the words,

" for the constitutional amendment " or " against the constitu-

tional amendment " as the voter shall elect, and immediately after

said election due return shall be made to the governor of the vote

for and against said proposed amendment as directed by the said

fourteenth article of the constitution.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 243.

AN ACT to ratify and confirm the act of eighteen hundred and

eighty-eight, chapter seventy-four, adopting and legalizing the

Code of Public General Laws and Code of Public Local Laws

of Maryland, prepared by John Prentiss Poe in pursuance of

the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three

hundred and two, and declaring the same to be the Code of

Public General Laws and Public Local Laws of this State, and

also directing the codification of the public acts of the session

of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight by said John Prentiss

Poe, and the incorporation thereof in said code in a reprint

thereof to be made by him.

WHEREAS, a question has been raised as to whether the Code

of Public General and Public Local Laws prepared by John

Prentiss Poe in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and

Preamble.

eighty-six, chapter three hundred and two, and the reprint thereof

incorporating therein the Public General and Public Local Laws

of the session of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as provided