144 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 82

Arundel County and Baltimore County, respectively, or of
other public officials or bodies holding title to any school houses
and lots, engine houses and lots, station houses and lots, to-
gether with the furniture and equipment therein or other pub-
lic property situate within the territory annexed by this Act
to Baltimore City, shall become and be vested in the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore as of January 1st, 1919, —all
of said property to be thereafter held by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore upon the same public trusts upon which
it has heretofore been held by the said County Commissioners
or other public officials or bodies of the said counties, respec-
tively.

SEC 10. And be it further enacted, That the territory an-
nexed to Baltimore City by this Act is hereby declared to
be a taxing district, and, for the year 1919, the Board of
Estimates and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in
fixing a tax rate, in the fall of 1918, under Section 40 of
the Charter, shall fix the rate of taxation for local purposes
in said taxing district at a sum equal to 60% of the full
city rate which shall be fixed by said Board upon real estate
situate within the limits of Baltimore City as they existed
prior to the passage of the Act of 1888, Chapter 98; and,
in like manner, for the year 1920, the said Board of Esti-
mates shall fix the rate for local purposes in said taxing dis-
trict at an amount equal to 62% of the said full city rate
on real estate in said old city limits; and so on, from year
to year, with an increase of 2% each, year of the percent-
age of the full city rate which is fixed as the rate upon real
estate in the said old city limits, until the rate in said tax-
ing district and in said old city limits shall become the same.
Beginning with the rate for the year 1939, and thereafter the
tax rate shall be the same throughout the entire city limits
of the City of Baltimore as enlarged by this Act, provided
that nothing in this Act shall be intended to repeal or affect
any law or ordinances now existing or which may hereafter
be passed fixing different rates of taxation upon different
classes of property, the intent of this provision being that,
beginning with the year 1939 and thereafter, there shall be
the same rate of taxation throughout the entire limits of
Baltimore City upon the same classes of property. The pro-
visions of the Baltimore City Charter with regard to the assess-
ment of property for taxation shall apply to the real and
personal property situate in the territory annexed by this Act