LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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13. After the first day of January, 1900, the superintendent
of immigration shall proceed to collect statistics and informa-
tion concerning the various branches of industry in this State
and the needs thereof.

Collect
statistics.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 283.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
two hundred and thirty of Article two of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title
"Treasurer," as the same was amended by Chapter six hun-
dred and fifteen of the Acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety-four.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Effective.

land, That section two hundred and thirty of Article two of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel county,"
sub-title "Treasurer," as the same was amended by chapter six
hundred and fifteen of the Acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety- four be and the same is hereby repealed and re enacted,
so as to read as follows :
230. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to enforce the pay-
ment of all such taxes remaining unpaid on the first day of

Repeal.

June in the year succeeding that in which the same have been
levied, by a levy upon the real or personal property of the
person or corporate institution so neglecting to pay ; provided,
the last notice required in the preceding section shall have
been given. If the taxes be due and owing upon real prop-
erty or upon real and personal property, the treasurer shall be
authorized to levy upon either real or personal property to
enforce the payment of the same ; whenever real estate is sus-
ceptible of division, so that a part thereof will sell for enough
to pay the taxes due and all costs, the treasurer may, in his
discretion, employ a surveyor to divide the same and tax as
part of the costs in such proceedings such compensation for
services of such surveyor as he may consider first, not exceed-
ing the sum of five dollars, but in no case shall a change for a
survey be made unless an actual survey shall have been ordered
by the treasurer and made; whenever any levy is made, notice
thereof together with a copy of the bill for taxes due,
interest and all costs, including that of a levy, shall be deliv-

Enforce pay-
ment of
taxes.