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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of any description; or to fish while in the posses-

sion of the fishermen employed in catching, salting

and packing the same ; or while in the possession

of their agents unsold ; or to the buildings, equip-

ment and furniture of hospitals, asylums, charitable

or benevolent institutions, or to the ground appur-

tenant thereto, which may be necessary for the

respective uses thereof, or to the buildings, furni-

ture, equipment or libraries of incorporated Educa-

tional or Literary Institutions, or to the ground

appurtenant thereto, which may be necessary for

the respective uses thereof; nor to the property,

real or personal of any corporation, incorpprated

by this State, and having a capital stock divided

into shares, when said snares are subject to taxa-

tion by this State as the property of the owners

thereof; nor to any shares of stock in any corpora-

Exemptions

tion when said shares of stock are exempted from

from taxation
to be strictly
construed

taxation ; nor to any property of any corporation
whose shares of capital stock are exempted from

taxation, when said property is protected from

taxation by the exemption of said shares from taxa-

tion ; but each and all of said exemptions from

taxation shall be strictly construed.

In force.

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

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 414.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article

fifty-six of the Code of Public General Laws,

entitled "Licenses," sub-title "Hawkers and

Pedlars."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Additional

of Maryland, That the following section be added

section.

to article fifty-six of the Code of Public General