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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sheriff of Carroll county accordingly from the
first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-
four.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 113.

Passed March
20, 1865.

AN ACT to repeal and amend the eighty-first
Article of the Code of Public General Laws
relating to Revenue and Taxes.

Section re-
pealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the sixth section of the eighty-
first Article of the Code of Public General Laws,
be and the same is hereby repealed, and the
following section enacted in lieu thereof:

Tax on slaves.

Sec. 6. The County Commissioners of the several
counties in this State, are hereby directed to strike
from their respective assessment books, all slave
property of every description and class heretofore
assessed according to law, and in future no taxes
of any kind shall be levied on the assessed value
of said slaves, nothing however in this section is
intended to release taxes levied on slaves as pro-
perty, prior to the first day of November, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, or to interfere in any way
with the collection thereof.

In force.

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