HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 615

records of the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City, and the
other shall be returned to and be recorded in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland;
copies of said plats, duly certified by the keepers of said
records, respectively, and under their respective seals of office,
shall be admitted in evidence in all Courts of this State. Any
person interfering with the agents, servants or employees of
the said Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City, or any of them,
in the discharge of the duties imposed by this Section, or by
the preceding Section, and any person removing or interfering
with said boundary stones, monuments or markers, planted as
aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a
fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10. 00) nor more than Fifty
Dollars ($50. 00) to be recovered by an action in the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, or before any Justice of the
Peace thereof.

194. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, all the pro-
visions of the Constitution of Maryland and of the Charter
of the town of Pocomoke City, and other local or general laws
applicable to the town of Pocomoke City, and all amendments
thereto, and all the existing ordinances of the town of Poco-
moke City, are hereby extended and made applicable to such
portions of Worcester County as shall, under the provisions of
this Act, be annexed to and made part of the town of Poco-
moke City; but nothing herein shall affect the power of the
Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City to amend or repeal any
ordinance existing at the time of the passage of this Act.

195. All public roads, streets, avenues and alleys lying in
any of the territory annexed to the corporate limits of Poco-
moke City by this Act which shall have been heretofore dedi-
cated and accepted or legally condemned as roads or streets,
under the provisions of any Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, or of the common law, shall be held to be validly
constituted public highways of the town of Pocomoke City.

196. All persons resident and all property situate within the
territory which, by this Act, is annexed to the town of Poco-
moke City, except such property as is hereinafter exempted,
shall become subject to taxation for local town purposes, begin-
ning with the town levy to be made in the fall of nineteen
hundred and thirty-seven for the year nineteen hundred and
thirty-eight. The territory annexed to the town of Pocomoke
City by this Act is hereby declared to be a taxing district, and
the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City shall have full power
to assess, levy and collect within said taxing district any and
all taxes whatsoever which it has or shall be authorized to