ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

constitute a part of the third legislative district
of the said city; and the territory described in
the third section of this act shall, if annexed to
the city of Baltimore, constitute a part of the
first legislative district of said city.
SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the
mayor and city council of Baltimore shall pay to

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the county commissioners of Baltimore county
such a sum as shall be ascertained to be a fair
value of the fire engine houses and the fire engines
and apparatus used in connection therewith, and
the station-houses, lamps and school-houses with-
in the limits of such portions of the territory de-
scribed in the first, second and third sections of

Pay fair val-
uation.

this act ; which value shall be ascertained by a
majority of a board of three arbitrators, one to
be appointed by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, and one by the county commissioners
of Baltimore county, and the two arbitrators
thus appointed shall appoint the third arbitra-
tor ; and if they cannot agree upon such third
arbitrator, the latter shall be appointed by the
Governor of Maryland ; the amount as to be as-
certained shall be paid within ninety days from
the award of said arbitrators.
SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That until

Value— how
ascertained.

the year nineteen hundred, the rate of taxation
for city purposes upon all landed property situ-
ated within the territory which, under the pro-
visions of this act, shall be annexed to the city
of Baltimore, and upon all personal property lia-
ble to taxation in said territory, whether owned
by persons, corporations or otherwise, and upon
which taxes would be paid to Baltimore county
if said territory should not be annexed to the
said city, shall at no time exceed the present tax
rate of Baltimore county ; and, until the year
nineteen hundred, there shall not be for the pur-
poses of city taxation any increase in the present
assessment of such property as is now assessed ;
and all property in the said territory which is not
now assessed, but which maybe within the same
period liable to assessment, shall be assessed at
the same rate as similar property is now assessed

Rate of tax-
ation.

in said territory ; and during the said period up
to the year nineteen hundred, the city of Balti-
more shall expend within said territory an

Amount to
expend.