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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 465.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendment section two
hundred and fifty-five of Article twenty-two, Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County," sub-
title "Jerusalem," and to add an additional section thereto,
to be known as Section two hundred and fifty-five A, to fol-
low said Section two hundred and fifty-five of said Article
twenty-two, Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That section two hundred and fifty-five of Article twenty-
two, Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washing-
ton County," sub-title "Jerusalem," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendment, and also that a new
section be and is hereby added to said Article twenty-two, Code

New section.

of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County,"
sub-title "Jerusalem," to be known as section two hundred and
fifty-five A, to follow said section two hundred and fifty-five of
said Article twenty-two, Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-_
land; said section, hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend
ment, and the said section hereby added, to read as follows :

Levy of taxes

255. The Burgess and Commissioners of Funkstown may
annually levy an equal tax on the assessable property in said
town to such an amount, not exceeding fifty cents on every
hundred dollars worth of assessable property in the town, as
they may think proper, for the purpose of the corporation, and
may appoint a collector to collect the same and prescribe his
term of office, responsibility and compensation; such taxes,
when levied, shall be a lien upon property as now provided by
law, and shall be collected as State and county taxes are col-
lected, and in addition thereto the said collector shall also have
the power to collect said taxes by an action of debt before a
justice of the peace, with the right of either of the parties to
the action to an appeal to the Circuit Court for Washington
county.

Property
subject to
taxation.

255 A. All property within the taxable limits of the town
of Funkstown or that may have a situs there, by reason of a
residence of the owner therein, shall be taxed for municipal
purposes and the assessment for town purposes shall be the
same as that for State and county purposes, and in case any
real estate assessed for State and county purposes be divided
by the town boundaries, the Burgess and commissioners shall