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for the purposes of city taxation to a rate equal to two-thirds of
the rate to which urban property may be liable, but in no year
shall the rate for suburban property exceed that of one dollar
and thirty cents ($1.30) on the one hundred dollars ($100) of
the assessed value of such suburban property. (3) All real and
leasehold property in said annexed territory which does not
come under either the classification of urban or suburban prop-
erty-, as hereinbefore defined, shall be classified as rural prop-
erty, and shall be subject, for the purposes of city taxation, to a
rate equal to one-third of the rate to which urban property may
be liable, but in no year shall said rate be less than the rate of
sixty-five cents on the one hundred dollars ($100) of the as-
sessed value of such rural property; provided, that all taxes
levied or assessed in said annexed territory prior to the levy
and assessment to be made for the year 1909 shall be subject to
the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland,
chapter 130, Acts 1902, and all other laws in force relating to
the levying and assessments of taxes in said annex prior to the
passage of this Act. All the easements and rights of way of
railroads and the tracks or other structures erected thereon,
and all easements or other property located in, on, under or
over the streets, roads, avenues, alleys, highways or ways in
said annexed territory, shall be and hereafter remain subject
to taxation as now or hereafter provided by law.

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

Approved April 13, 1908.
TAX ON MORTGAGES—See Chapter 283, page 242.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to repeal the sub-division entitled "Condemnation of
Property," of section 6 of article 4 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," as enacted by chapter
123 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of the
year 1898, and also the paragraph added to the same section,
immediately after the above mentioned sub-division, by chap-
ter 397 of the Acts of 1906 of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, entitled "An Act to add a new paragraph to section 6
of article 4, entitled 'City of Baltimore,' of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland, to come in immediately after
the conclusion of the paragraph in said section, entitled
'Condemnation of Property,' and to be entitled 'Condemna-