1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1983

Acts of Assembly passed at the January Session of
1902 so far as the same apply to Baltimore City, Anne
Arundel, Baltimore, Prince George's, Harford,
Charles, Calvert, Allegany, Cecil. St. Mary's, Kent,
Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot, and Dorchester coun-
ties, and to allow the several counties, except those
hereinbefore named, to collect the said mortgage tax
and to apply it to their resources, free from any claim
of the State".

"Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section 140 A, 146 B. 146 C, 146 D,
146 D-1, 146 E, 146 E-1 and 146 F of Article 81 of the
Code of Public General Laws, title 'Revenue and
Taxes,' sub-title 'Mortgages,' as amended by chapter
120 of the Acts of Assembly, passed at file January
session of 1896, by chapter 318 of the Acts of Assem-
bly passed ar the January session of 1898, and by
chapter 26 of the Acts of Assembly passed at the Jan-
uary session of 1902, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed so far as said sections apply to Baltimore city,
Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Prince George's, Harford,
Charles, Calvert, Allegany, Cecil, St. Mary's, Kent,
Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot and Dorchester coun-
ties, and that said sections shall be and remain in full
force and virtue in law in the several counties of the
State of Maryland not hereinbefore excepted, pro-
vided, however, that all such taxes collected in said
several counties of the State shall be applied exclu-
sively in the several in which the same are collected
to county purposes, from, clear, and discharged from
any claim of the State of Maryland or its fiscal officers.

"Sec. 2. And be it enacred that this Act shall take
effect from the date, of its passage."

Respectfully,

(Signed.) CARVILLE D. BENSON,
E. E. GOSL1N,
J. E GODWIN,

On the part of the House.

HARRY A. ROE,
THOS. H. ROBINSON,
JOHN P. MOORE,

On the part of the Senate.
Which was adopted, and