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	CHAP. 463	said company shall be authorized to cross or otherwise use the public streets or highways of said county; and pro- vided, further, that the said company shall have no right to acquire by condemnation proceedings any mines, quarries, water-rights, or to obstruct or divert, or in any manner interfere with any river or its tributaries, or any streams, mill-race or water-courses whatsoever within the limits of Cecil county, aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 3, 1906. CHAPTER 464. AN ACT to exempt from taxation property belonging to and used by the Fire Insurance Salvage Corps of Baltimore. WHEREAS, By Section 4 of Article 81 of the Code of Public
	Preamble.	General Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," sub-title "Exemptions," the property in this State belonging to any county of this State or incorporated city or town of this State, are exempt from taxation; and WHEREAS, The city of Baltimore has established a fire department and in connection therewith, and for the purposes for which the fire departments are established, owned property, both real and personal, which is so exempt from taxation ; and WHEREAS, Various insurance companies have in pursuance of the Act of Assembly passed at the January Session, 1886, Chapter 113, and also the Act of Assembly of 1888, Chapter 72, established a salvage corps for the purposes therein set forth, and especially to save and preserve property from destruction by fire and water, and maintain the same without expense to the city; and WHEREAS, It is right and proper that such properties should be exempt from taxation; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
	Exempt from taxation.	land, That the real and personal property owned and acquired by the Fire Insurance Salvage Corps of Baltimore in pursuance of Section 2, Chapter 72 of the Acts of 1888, be and the same is hereby exempt from taxation for all county and municipal purposes.