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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to pay for these respective certificates of authority, the sum of two

dollars; for each abstract of their annual statements for publica-

tion, two dollars; for every copy of any paper filed in the insurance

department, the sum of twenty cents per folio; and for affixing

the official seal to such copy and certifying the same, one dollar ;
for valuing policies of life insurance companies, thirty dollars per

million of insurance or any fractional part thereof; for official

examinations of companies under this article, the actual expenses

incurred; provided, that the filing of the papers with the insur-

ance commissioner as required by this article, shall be in lieu of

all papers now required by law to be filed with the comptroller

and clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city.

Effective.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 546.

AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and ninety and two hun-

dred and one, of article sixteen, of the Code of Public Local

Laws of Maryland, title "Montgomery county," sub-title "Rock-

ville," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

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

That sections one hundred and ninety and two hundred and one,

Repeal

of article sixteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws of the State

of Maryland, title "Montgomery county," sub-title "Rockville,"

be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read

as follows :

190. The council may, whenever as often as they deem the pub-

lic convenience requires it, cause an assessment to be made of real

and personal property within the corporate limits of said town,

Assess?
ment,

subject to assessment for county or State taxes, and they may pre-

scribe the manner in which such assessment shall be made, and

provide for adjusting all differences in relation to such assessment.

and do all other things necessary for making such assessment;

provided, such assessment shall not exceed the assessment for

State and county purposes; and the council may levy an annual

tax on the assessable property within the corporate limits of said

town not exceeding in any one year, fifty cents in the hundred

dollars worth of assessable property.

201. The public buildings and other county property in said

Public

town shall not be subject to taxation, and shall continue to the

buildings

uses to which the same are now allotted; the judges of the several

courts shall continue to hold their courts in the court house as