PRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVEENOE.

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CHAPTER 390.

AN ACT to encourage manufacturers in the city of -Cum-

berland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the mayor and city council of Cumberland

be, and they are hereby empowered to levy for the years

May levy
tax to

eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and eighteen hundred
and ninety -three, at the time of making the annual levy for

encourage
manufac-
turers.

general purposes in said city, upon all taxable property
therein, a sum not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars, in each

of said years, for the purpose of securing the introduction of

manufacturing enterprises in said city, said sum or sums,

or so much thereof as may be necessary to be levied to and

expended by and under the direction of the Merchants,

Manufacturers' and Business Men's Association of Cumber-

land ; provided, however, that this act shall be submitted

for ratification to the voters of said city of Cumberland, at

the next city election, to be held on the third Monday in

May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and if

not then ratified by a two-third majority of the votes cast

for and against its ratification, the levies authorized by

this act shall not be made.

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

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 391.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

two of act passed at the session of eighteen hundred and

ninety, chapter two hundred and two, entitled "An act

to appropriate a sum of money to pay for land that may

be required for the extension of the Maryland Penitentiary

and for the erection of necessary buildings thereon."

WHEREAS, it is now apparent that the payment of twenty -

five thousand dollars per annum in the second section of

Preamble.

the act of eighteen hundred and ninety, chapter two

hundred and two, entitled "An act to appropriate a sum of

money to pay for land that may be required for the exten-

sion of the Maryland Penitentiary and for the erection of

necessary buildings thereon, " is wholly inadequate therefor.