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LAWS OF MAEYLAND.

CHAPTER 426.

AN ACT to amend section fifty-one, of article three, of the con-

stitution of this State.

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

(Three-fifths of all the members of the two housea concurring,)

To amend.

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

an amendment to 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 section fifty-one, of

article three, of the constitution of this State.

SEC. 51. The personal property of residents of this State shall

be subject to taxation in the county or city where the resident

bona fide resides for the greater part of the year for which the tax

Amend-
ment.

may or shall be levied, and not elsewhere except goods and chattels

permanently located, which shall be taxed in the city or county

where they are so located, but the general assembly may by law

provide for the taxation of mortgages upon property in this State

and the debts secured thereby in the county or city where such

property is situated.

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

That the said foregoing section hereby proposed -as an amendment

to the constitution shall be, at the next general election held in

this State, submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for

Submitted

their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions con-

tained in article fourteen, of the constitution of this State; and

at the said general election the vote 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 constitutional 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 8, 1890.