ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

cents in the hundred dollars ; provided the said
county commissioners, after fully investigating
and inquiring into the demands and needs of
said special tax for the purposes of said road in
said road district, as set forth in said petition,
shall determine said special tax to be necessary
and for the best interest of the people in said
district, and said tax to be expended under the
directions of the said commissioners within said

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district ; and it shall be the duty of the collector
of county taxes to collect the same, and his
bond shall be responsible therefor ; and the said
taxes shall be collected with the other taxes of
the county, but a separate account kept of the
same; and the expense of collecting said special
tax shall be levied upon and paid by the assessa-
ble property in said road district.

Who to collect

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That all laws in-
consistent with this act be and the same are
hereby repealed.

Inconsistent
laws repealed.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1888.

Chapter 97.

AN ACT to enlarge the powers of the Lake
Chrome and Mineral Company of Baltimore
county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the Lake Chrome and
Mineral Company of Baltimore, county, incorpor-

Effective.

ated under the twenty-sixth article of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland,
adopted by the general assembly at its ses-
sion, January, eighteen hundred and sixty, shall
have power to make assessments on the holders
of its shares of stock for the purpose of raising
money to improve its property and erect neces-
sary additional machinery, buildings and other
improvements and appliances for the purpose

Power to
make assess-
ments.