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son or persons so appointed shall qualify in the same man-
ner as if he or they had been originally appointed under this
Act by the said Governor."

Which was adopted.

Mr. Stevens submitted the following amendment :
AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Line 15 of Sec. 2, after the word "unsoled," insert "all
judgments, notes, securities and property belonging to any
bank or other incorporated institution of this State, paying
its taxes on its shares of capital stock as required by the 83d
Section of the 81st Article of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," as re-enacted by chapter
483, of the Laws of Maryland, passed at the January Ses-
sion, 1874."

Which was rejected.

Mr. Stevens submitted the following amendment:
AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Line 12, page 3, after the word "description," insert "and
household furniture to the value of f 150."

Which was rejected.

Mr. Bannon submitted the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out "Sec. 2," and insert the following:
Sec 2. "And be it enacted, That the following property
is expressly exempted from State, county or municipal taxa-
tion: property belonging to the United States, or to this
State, or to any county, or incorporated city or town in this
State; houses or buildings used exclusively for public wor-
ship, and the furniture contained therein, and the ground
which the said houses or buildings so exclusively used for
public worship, shall actually cover; graveyards, cemeteries,
paying no dividend, burying grounds set apart for the use of
any family, or belonging to any church or congregation; the
crop or produce of any land in this State, in the hands of the
producer or his agent; provisions kept tor the use and con-
sumption of the family of the person to whom the same shall
belong; the working-tools of mechanics and manufacturers,
moved or worked exclusively by hand; wearing apparel of

every description; fish, while in the possession of the fisher-
man employed in catching, salting and packing the same,
while they remain in their possession, or in that of their
agents unsold; hospitals or asylums, charitable or benevo-
lent institutions, so far as used for the benefit of the indigent
and afflicted, and the ground which the buildings used as

such, hospitals, asylums, charitable or benevolent institutions