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chanical or mercantile establishment, or any plant of any kind,
or any mine, colliery or quarry, or any electric railway,' water,
sewerage, gas, electric light, power, transmission, heating, re-
frigerating, telephone, telegraph or other public service prcxp-
eirty or properties; and all the provisions of the said sections,
including those which relate to the appointment, commission-
ing, oath, authority, powers, compensation and termination of
service of the policemen referred to in said sections, shall in
all respects be applicable to policemen appointed for any of"
the corporations, firms or individuals mentioned in this sec-
tion; provided, that any such corporation, firms or individual
shall be liable for the wrongful or negligent aet of any such
policeman.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public safety, and being passed upon
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assem-
bly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER, 218.

AN ACT to empower and constitute it the duty of the Treasurer
of Howard County to report to the Circuit Court for Howard
County any and all sales of real estate for the non-payment
of taxes which have heretofore been made, or which may here-
after be made, but not reported, by his deceased predecessor-
or predecessors in the said office of the Treasurer; and, upon
the ratification of such sale or sales by the said Court, and
upon the receipt by said Treasurer of the full amount of the
purchase money, to convey such real estate to the purchaser
or purchasers thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Treasurer of Howard County be, and he is hereby
empowered, and it is hereby constituted his duty, to report to
the Circuit Court for Howard County, in the same manner as
such sales are now reported by the incumbent of said office of
Treasurer, any and all sales of real estate for the non-payment
of taxes which have heretofore been made, or which may here-
after be made, but not reported by his deceased predecessor or