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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Mount Washington Neighborhood Improvement Associa-

tion by the treasurer and collector of Baltimore County, to

be used exclusively for the betterment of the roads and

sidewalks, drainage, sanitary measures, and other improve-

ments of said village of Mount Washington provided that

Proviso.

this section shall be applicable if twenty-five or more taxable

residents of said village of Mount Washington so described

shall forty days prior to the said annual levy, petition the said

county commissioners asking such special levy to be made.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That whenever such petition is filed,

the county commissioners shall give notice of the filing thereof

Notice to
be given.

by publication in two newspapers published in Baltimore

County for two successive weeks immediately following the

filing of such petition, and if a petition signed by an equal

or larger number of taxpayers, residents of said village rep-

resenting a larger amount of taxable property than the

parties petitioning be filed prior to such levy, objecting

thereto then the said commissioners shall refuse to make

such additional levy.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said county

Survey.

commissioners shall within a reasonable time after the pas-

sage of this act, and after the first levy hereunder is made,

cause and procure a survey to be made of said village on or

as near as practicable to the lines as herein designated,

locating the same by metes and bounds, and the costs of

said survey shall be deducted from the first assessment as

herein provided for.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 633.

AN ACT to provide for the separate codification of the

statute and common law defining the jurisdiction of jus-

tices of the peace and the offences cognizable by said

justice with the respective penalties thereto attached.

WHEREAS many of the offences cognizable by justices of

Preamble.

the peace and those originating under the common law and

code.

WHEREAS the statutory law applicable to the jurisdic-

Preamble

. tion of justices of the peace is now codified in Poe's Code

and the acts of Assembly passed since said codification :