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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

so violate its provisions, one half to the use of the State, and
the other half to the County School Commissioners for the
benefit of the public schools.

Effective

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 280.

AN ACT to repeal Section one hundred and forty of
Article twenty of the Code of Public Local Laws of Talbot
County, relating to the town of Saint Michaels, and re enact
the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repeal.

Maryland, That section one hundred and forty of article
twenty of the Code of Public Local Laws of Talbot county,
relating to the town of Saint Michaels, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as
follows :

SEC. 140. And lie it enacted, That the commissioners of the

To levy tax.

town of Saint Michaels shall have full power and authority to
levy on all property, real, personal and mixed of all kinds and
descriptions whatsoever, within the corporate limits of said
town, a sum not exceeding sixty cents in every hundred dollars'
worth of property in any one year, and in the same proportion
upon any greater or smaller share of property, after a just and
fair assessment and valuation by some suitable and discreet
person, acting under oath, and by them appointed, the same to
be made and returned annually between the first day of May
and the fifteenth day of June, if they think it necessary.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.