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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

amount at least equal to the amount of revenue
derived from taxation on the basis herein set
forth from the said territory, in affording to
the residents within said territory the rights
and privileges accorded to and enjoyed by the
residents within what are the present limits
of said city ; but nothing in this act shall be so
construed as to require the expenditure by said
city of any greater sum ; from and after the year
1900 the property, real and personal, in the ter-
ritory so annexed, shall be liable to taxation and

How con-
strued.

assessment, therefor, in the same manner and
form as similar property within the present lim-
its of said city may be liable ; provided, however,
that after the year 1900 the present Baltimore
county rate of taxation shall not be increased
for city purposes on any landed property within
the said territory until avenues, streets or alleys
shall have been opened and constructed through
the same, nor until there shall be upon every
block of ground so to be formed at lea'st six
(6) dwelling or store-houses ready for occupa-
tion.
SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That if any
portion of the territory described in this act
shall, under its provisions, become annexed to
Baltimore city, the county commissioners of

Fix other
places for
holding elec-
tions.

Baltimore county are hereby directed in lieu of
such places for holding elections in Baltimore
county as are now fixed by law, which are situ-
ated within the territory so annexed, to fix other
places for the holding of said elections outside
of the territory so annexed, and if the annexa-
tion of any territory which shall be annexed
under the provisions of this act shall leave a
part of any election precinct of Baltimore
county still within the lines of said county and
a part within the annexed territory, then the
part so left within the lines of Baltimore county
shall constitute the same election precinct of
Baltimore county as the whole now constitutes,
until the county commissioners of Baltimore
county shall make other provisions in relation
thereto.

What not to
affect.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That noth-
ing in this act shall affect the right of any turn-
pike or toll-road company heretofore chartered