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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sub-title "Taneytown," be and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

SEC. 155. The said commissioners shall cause to be made an

assessment from time to time of all property, real and personal,

within the limits of said town, and shall levy a tax upon all such

They may
borrow.

property, not to exceed in any one year forty cents on the one
hundred dollars, as they may deem necessary for the said corpo-

rate government expenses; and said commissioners may borrow,

to be used for corporate purposes, a sum not exceeding three thou-

sand dollars, which debt shall be cancelled as rapidly as the col-

lection of taxes succeeding said borrowing will permit, after pay-

ing all the necessary expenses, incident to the necessary and proper

government of the said town.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the burgess and commissioners

of Taneytown be and they are hereby authorized and empowered

to take the sense of the people of Taneytown, in relation to the

increase of the rate of taxation from twenty to forty cents, in the

discretion of the said commissioners, on the one hundred dollars ;

and the empowering of the said commissioners with the authority

to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars,

as provided for in this act, by submitting the question to the

qualified voters of said town, at an election to be held for that

purpose, under such regulations as the burgess and commissioners

may direct, at which all .registered and qualified voters residing

within the corporate limits of said town shall be entitled to vote,

which election shall not be more than sixty days after the pass-

To decide
by vote.

age of this act; and at such election the qualified voters of said

town are authorized to cast a ballot, " For the power to increase

levy and to borrow not exceeding three thousand dollars," or a

ballot, " Against the power to increase levy and to borrow not ex-

ceeding three thousand dollars," and the result of such election

shall be certified under the hand and seal of the judges of said

election, to the said burgess and commissioners of Taneytown ;

who shall cause such certificate to be recorded among the ordi-

nances of said town, and if the majority of the votes cast be for

the authority to increase the rate of taxation, and to borrow a sum

of money not exceeding three thousand dollars, the said commis-

sioners shall be forthwith authorized and empowered to exercise

the authority vested in them by the provisions of this act.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890