A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

penses, charges .and sums of money which they
are or shall be required by law to collect for other
purposes.

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

In force.

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT to ratify and confirm and make valid
the action of the County Commissioners of Wash-
ington county, in levying a special tax upon the
assessable, property of said county, to raise a
sum of money to be appropriated to the payment
of bounties to volunteers in the army of the
United States, and to carry the same into effect.

Passed Feb.
11, 1864.

WHEREAS, the County Commissioners of Wash-
ington county, at a special meeting held on the
twenty-first day of August, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, did levy a tax of twenty
cents in every one hundred dollars of the assessa-
ble property in said county, to create a fund for
payment of bounties to volunteers in the military
service of the United States, and in anticipation of
said tax did borrow a large sum of money for pay-
ment of said bounties; and whereas, after the col-
lection of the major part of said tax, doubts have
been raised as to the authority of the said County
Commissioners to impose the said tax and to en-
force payment thereof:

Preamble.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Washington county be and they are hereby autho-
rized and directed, at the time of making the levy
to defray the ordinary expenses of the said county
tor the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to
levy an additional special tax of thirty-two cents
on the hundred dollars on the assessable property

Commission-
ers authorized
to levy an ad-
ditional tax.