WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 165

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved November 10, 1947.

CHAPTER 72.
(House Bill 39)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendment, Section 171
of Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912, same being codified as
Section 358 of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wicomico County", in-
creasing the limit of the authorized tax rate from fifty
cents to one dollar per hundred dollars of assessed value
for general purposes of Commissioners of Sharptown.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 358 of Article 23 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), as said section was
enacted by Section 171 of Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912, be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendment, to
read as follows:

358. The Commissioners shall, on or before the first Tues-
day in October annually levy upon the assessable property
subject to taxation for town purposes a sum sufficient for
all general purposes not to exceed one dollar on the
one hundred dollars of the assessed value thereof; and such
sums' as may hereafter be authorized by the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland for the liquidation and pay-
ment of indebtedness of said town, or any bonds thereof and
interest thereon, to be issued under authority of law here-
after passed; which said taxes when assessed and levied shall
be a lien upon the real, personal and mixed property against
which it is so assessed; provided, however, that the collector
may seize and take and sell any property of the owner for
the purpose of enforcing payment of such taxes due and
owing. Said taxes shall bear interest from the first day of
January succeeding the levy, and all taxes not paid and in
arrears after the first day of January next succeeding said
levy may be collected as hereinbefore set forth.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the