WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 43.

AN ACT to repeal sub-section one of an act passed

at the January session of the General Assembly

of Maryland, eighteen hundred and seventy two,

chapter three hundred and eighty-nine, entitled

"An Act to add an additional section to article

twenty-one of the Code of Public Local Laws,

entitled 'Washington. County,' sub-title ' Wil-

liamsport,' to come in after section three hun-

dred and thirty-one of said article, and also to

repeal section three hundred and thirty-two of

said article, ' And re-enact the same with Amend-

ments,' " and to re-enact the same so as to read

as follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That sub-section one of an act

passed at the January session of the General As-

sembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred and seventy-

two, chapter three hundred and eighty-nine, entitled

Repealed and

" An Act to add an additional section to article

re-enacted.

twenty-one of the Code of Public Local Laws,

entitled 'Washington County,' sub-title 'Williams-

port,' to come in after section three hundred and

thirty-two of said article, and re-enact the same

with amendments," be and the same is hereby

repealed and is re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SUB-SECTION 1. The Burgess and Commissioners

of the Town of Williamsport, or a majority of them

for the time being, be and they are hereby author-

ized, at any time within five years after the passage

of this act, to levy a tax on all the taxable property

within the corporate limits of said town, not exceed-

ing twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars'

worth of said property, to raise a fund for the purpose
of erecting a suitable police station house in said

Funds for

erecting police

town, to be collected as other corporation taxes are

station.

now collected in said town; and the said Burgess

and Commissioners, or a majority of them, are here-

by authorized to contract for and superintend the

building of said police station house, and to use the

said fund or so much thereof as may be necessary to