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SEC. 7. And be it further ^enacted, That the Board of Super-
visors of Elections of Baltimore County are hereby directed to
provide new polling places for, or to so amend their election
precincts as to include within existing election precincts, all
registered voters residing in Baltimore County outside of the
limits of Baltimore City as fixed by this Act and who have here-
tofore been registered in election precincts whose polling places
were located within the territory annexed by this Act to Balti-
more City; and the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Anne
Arundel County shall, in like manner, provide new polling
places or re-arrange existing precincts so as to provide polling
places for all registered voters of Anne Arundel County outside
of the limits of Baltimore City as fixed by this Act and who
have heretofore been registered in election precincts the poll-
ing places of which were located within the territory annexed
by this Act to Baltimore City.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That persons resident
and property situate within the territory which by this Act is
annexed to Baltimore City shall become subject to taxation for
local city purposes beginning with the city levy, to be made in
the fall of 1918, for the year 1919. And the Treasurer of Bal-
timore County and the Treasurer of Anne Arundel County are
hereby respectively authorized to collect all State Taxes levied
for the year 1918, and the proportion to December 31, 1918,
of all county and other local taxes, if any, levied for
the fiscal year 1918-1919, and all taxes for previous
years which may not have been paid, to the same ex-
tent as if this Act had not been passed. The said Treas-
urers are hereby directed, in making out the bills for
local taxes for the fiscal year 1918-1919, to deduct such pro-
portion thereof as the time from December 31, 1918, to the
end of said fiscal year shall bear to the whole year. The obli-
gation of maintaining a police force for preserving the peace
and of maintaining a fire department as a protection against
fire, and of maintaining the public highways and public schools
and of performing every other governmental or municipal
function heretofore performed by the County Commissioners
or other public officials in the territory which is by this Act
annexed to Baltimore City (except the duties hereinabove im-
posed upon the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City),
shall continue to rest upon the County Commissioners of Bal-
timore County and the County Commissioners of Anne Arun-
del County, respectively, or other public officials, until Decem-