HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 406.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section one
hundred and fifty-eight of article twenty-
one of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Washington County," sub-title "Hancock,"
as amended and re-enacted by chapter two
hundred and forty-one of the acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-eight, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed, re-enacted and amended.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That section one hun-
dred and fifty-eight of article twenty-one of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Washing-

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ton County/' sub-title " Hancock," as amended
and re-enacted by chapter two hundred and
forty -one, of the acts of the General Assembly
of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
and amended, so as to read as follows :

SECTION 158. They may levy a tax on the
property within the town, to such amount as
may, from time to time, be deemed necessary,
not to exceed, however, in any one year ten
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of
property, and may appoint a Collector to col-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

lect the same, and prescribe his term of office,
responsibility and compensation; and the said
Collector shall have the same power to dis-
train for the taxes so levied as the Collector
of county taxes, and shall collect and pay the
same to the Burgess and Commissioners; and
the said Burgess and Commissioners shall not
make contracts or enter into any obligations
which will require an expenditure of money in
excess of the levy for the year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at the next
regular election held in said town of Hancock
after the passage of this act, the duly qualified
voters of said town, favoring the adoption of

Levy tax.