A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 105.

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AN ACT to amend the twenty-third section of
the eighty-first Article of the Code of Public
General Laws, relating to the Direct Tax im-
posed on the assessable property of the State.

Passed Feb.
27, 1862.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the twenty-third section of the eighty-
first Article of the Code of Public General Laws,
relating to the Direct Tax imposed on the asses-
sable property of the State, be and the same is
hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows :

Amended.

"Twenty-three." The County Commissioners in
the several counties, and the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, shall, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-two, and annually thereafter, im-
pose a tax for the use of the State, of twenty-five
cents on every hundred dollars worth of assessa-
ble property within their respective jurisdictions,
according to the valuation thereof.

Tax imposed
on assessable
property of the
State.

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

In force.

CHAPTER 106.

AN ACT to amend sections one hundred and
ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-five, one
hundred and ninety-six and one hundred and
ninety-eight, of Article thirty, of the Code of
Public General Laws, entitled, Crimes and Pun-
ishments, relating to the sentence of Negroes.

Passed March
3,1862.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That sections one hundred and nine-
ty-four, one hundred ninety-five, one hundred
ninety-six and one hundred and ninety-eight, of
Article thirty, of the Code of Public General

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Amended.