1154 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dollar per day each while performing the duty herein imposed
on them.

48E. To encourage manufacturers in said town, the Mayor
and Council are authorized, when they see fit so to do, to
exempt the plant of any manufacturing company or association
hereafter located within the corporate limits of said town from
taxation for corporate purposes for five years, but any ordi-
nance, resolution or contract which exempts any property, ex-
cept such as a manufacturing plant, or for a period for longer
than five years, shall be absolutely null and void in all respects
whatever.

48p. The taxes imposed in the annual levy by the Mayor and
Council shall be collectible by action at law or by proceeding
against the property under seizure by way of distress or execu-
tion at any time within four years after such taxes become due
and in arrears, and not afterwards, unless the person or per-
sons charged with the taxes, shall extend the time of payment
by an express promise to pay the same, in which case they may
be so collected at any time within three years after the new
promise.

48o. The title to all real, leasehold and personal property be-
longing to the town shall be vested in the Mayor and Council,
who shall have full power and authority to protect and preserve
the same, and to proceed at law or in equity as may be right, to
recover the possession thereof or recover damages for trespass
upon or injury to the same or to prevent injury thereto, and as
well as by ordinances to provide penalties for injuries thereto.

48H. The Mayor and Council once in each year shall make a
general levy of taxes on the assessable property of the town to
meet the corporate expenses, requirements and purposes of the
town, such taxes not to exceed the rate of twenty-five cents on
every one hundred dollars of assessed property, for the current
expenses alone. If the said Mayor and Council in their discre-
tion at any time deem it neccessary or advisable to increase the
said tax rate to a sum not to exceed fifty cents on every one
hundred dollars, they shall submit such proposed increased rate
to the vote of the qualified citizens of said town at either a
regular or special election, and if said question shall be sub-
mitted to the vote of the people under the power hereby
granted, then there shall be printed on the ballots the words
"for an increase in the tax rate to (here shall be printed the
proposed rate) cents on every one hundred dollars," and
"against the increase of tax rate;" and if a majority of the
votes cast shall be against the increase of the tax rate, the said
tax rate shall not be increased, but if a majority of the votes