FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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rate npt greater than five per centum per annum payable

Bate of in-
terest.

semi-annually on the first days of October and April in

each year; said bonds to be sold by the said County Com-

missioners and the proceeds applied to the payment of

said county bonds falling due as aforesaid and remaining

unpaid after exhausting the money arising from the sinking

fund investments in the manner hereinbefore recited.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said County Com-

missioners shall fix the time or times at which the said

rime bonds
shall ma-

bonds shall mature not to extend beyond the period of

ture.

twenty years from the date of their issue, and shall be made

redeemable at the pleasure of said County Commissioners

after the expiration of ten years from the date of said bonds.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said County Com-

missioners of Talbot County be and they are hereby author-

Levy a tax.

ized and empowered to levy a tax upon the taxable property

of Talbot County, in each and every year sufficient to pay

the interest on said bonds to be issued as aforesaid, and to

provide a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds at

maturity or when they shall become redeemable.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the bonds hereby

authorized to be issued shall be exempt from all taxation,

Exempt

except taxes due the State, and that the coupons due on the

from taxa-

said bonds shall be received by the collector of taxes in

tion .

Talbot County in payment of county taxes.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

In force.

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8th, 1892.

CHAPTER 68.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General

Assembly of Maryland to certain bequests and devises

contained in the last will and testament of Thomas S.

Beall, late of Anne Arundel County, deceased.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the sanction and consent of the General

Assembly of Maryland be, and the same are hereby given

and declared to the bequest of five hundred dollars to the

vestry of St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis, Maryland, to the

Sanction

bequest of five hundred dollars to the vestry of St. Thomas,

bequest.

Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland ; to the bequest

of five hundred dollars to the vestry of St. Anne's Parish,