JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, Nothing in this Act shall affect
or impair liens already existing at the date of its passage, and
this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11, 1902.

CHAPTER 433.
AN ACT to add a new Section to Article two of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County, " sub-title
"County Commissioners, " to come in after Section 124, and
to be known as Section 124 A, to provide for the rates of
taxes in said county.

CHAP. 433.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the following section be and the same is
hereby added to Article two of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Anne Arundel County, " sub-title "County Com-
missioners, " to come in after section 124, and to be known as
section 124 A:

New section
added.

Section 124 A. They shall, on the first day of June in the
year nineteen hundred and two, and on the same day in every
year thereafter, levy all needful taxes on the assessable prop-
erty within the county liable to taxation, and what is now
classed as the county tax shall not exceed fifty-five cents on
the hundred dollars, and what is now classed as road tax shall
not exceed twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars in the
first, second and eighth election districts, and not to exceed
forty-five cents on the hundred dollars in the third, fourth and
fifth election districts of said county; and they shall, at the end
of each month, enter upon the record of their proceedings the
proportionate part of said rate of taxes expended or contracted
for during the month. If the said County Commissioners
shall find that the said rate of taxes will not meet the necessary
and indispensable expenses of the county they may, after ten
days' previous notice of their intention so to do, to be published
in at least two newspapers of the county, by a vote of five-
sevenths of all members elected, increase said levy for county
or district purposes to such an amount as they may deem
proper. The vote on such increase to be by yeas and nays-
and to be entered upon their proceedings.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 434.
AN ACT to add tive additional Sections to Section 38 of
Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of the State of
Maryland, title "Cecil County, " sub-title "Birds and Game, "

Taxes to be

levied.