FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 339.

AN ACT to enable George W. Long collector of State and

county taxes of Somerset County for the year eighteen

hundred and eighty-eight to enforce the payment of the

taxes not heretofore collected by him.

WHEREAS, The act of the General Assembly of Mary-

land of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight chapter one

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hundred and thirty-seven, provided a new system for col-

lecting revenue and taxes in Somerset County, to begin and

be in operation only as to the collections of taxes for the

year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and for year subse-

quent thereto ; and

WHEREAS, a certain George W. Long of Somerset County,

was appointed and duly qualified as collector of State and

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county taxes for Somerset County for the year eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-eight under laws, which liad therefore pro-

vided the manner and means, of enforcing the lien for taxes

in .said county, and to whose appointment, the act of

eighteen hundred and eighty -eight chapter one hundred

and thirty-seven by its own terms did not apply ; and

WHEREAS, In transcribing the Local Code for Somerset

County the codifier thereof omitted the provisions of the

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prior laws aforesaid, for collecting and enforcing liens for

taxes in said county, and inserted upon that subject only

the act of eighteen hundred and eighty -eight, chapter one

hundred and thirty-seven which did not apply to the taxes

to be collected by said Long ; thereby repealing the said

prior law applicable thereto, and

WHEREAS, the said George W. Long has been unable

wholly to collect the State and county taxes of Somerset

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County for eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, by reason of

the said repeal and want of any law, to enforce the same.

therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That all taxes, heretofore levied by the County

Extension

Commissioners of Somerset County for the said year eighteen

of time for

hundred and eighty-eight and not yet collected by the said

collecting.

George W. Long, may be collected within two years from

and after the passage of this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act

of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight chapter one hundred

and thirty-seven and if any amendments thereto, as art

applicable to the enforcing of the collection of taxes in

said county for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine