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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

steps for the enforcement of the payment of said taxes either

by notice, levy, advertisement or other proceeding, and if

his term of office shall expire before the collection of said

taxes, or before said proceedings are completed, the newly

elected and qualified treasurer and collector is empowered

and required to continue and complete said proceedings for

the enforcement of the payment of said taxes and to collect

the same in t tie same manner as. is now provided by law,

and with all the power and authority in law had by the

retired treasurer and collector during his term of office for

that period.

Effective

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 16th, 1892.

CHAPTER 134.

AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of Easton to bor-

row a sum of money for the payment of a certain debt

due by said commissioners and heretofore contracted to

meet the necessary expenses of the town of Easton, to

issue bonds for the payment of the same, and to levy and

collect taxes for the redemption of said bonds and the

payment of interest thereon.

WHEREAS, the commissioners of Eastou, the municipal

Preamble.

corporation created by the laws of the State of Maryland,

was on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and

eighty -two indebted in the sum of ten thousand dollars for

debts heretofore contracted on account of sundry necessary

expenses of said corporation over and above its annual

revenues ; and whereas the annual revenue derived from

taxes then authorized to be levied on the taxable property

within the limits of said corporation, after discharging the

current expenses of said corporation, were wholly insuffi-

cient for the payment of the said indebtedness, or any part
thereof, and whereas the General Assembly of Maryland at

its session of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorized

said corporation, to issue bonds for the sum of ten thou-

sand dollars, to be paid, with the interest on same, within

ten years from the issue thereof by a special tax, on the

taxable property within the limits of said corporation, and

whereas the moneys arising from the said special tax so

levied, have been sufficient to pay but seven thousand dol-

lars, of the indebtedness aforesaid, leaving the sum of three