72 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to authorize and require the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County to make a special levy of not more than
twenty cents on each hundred dollars of the whole assessable
property situate in the village of St. Denis, Baltimore County,
for the use and purpose of the betterment of the roads, side-
walks, sanitary conditions, drainage and other improvements
in said village, if fifteen or more persons residing in said vil-
lage and owning taxable, real or personal property in said
village shall petition therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore
County at the time of the annual tax levy for the year 1914, and
each succeeding year are hereby authorized, directed and re-
quired to make a special annual levy of such amount as may be
mentioned in the petition hereinafter referred to, on each one
hundred dollars of the whole assessable property situate in the
village of St. Denis, in Baltimore County, to be collected as
other County Taxes in said County are collected, and said
special annual levy to be paid over by the said County Com-
missioners to the Treasurer of the St. Denis Improvement As-
sociation of Baltimore County, Inc., a duly incorporated body
under the laws of the State of Maryland, to be used by said
Association exclusively for the betterment of the roads, side-
walks, sanitary conditions, drainage and other improvements
in said village of St. Denis; provided fifteen or more persons
residing in said village and owning such taxable real or personal
property in said village shall, prior to each annual levy, peti-
tion the said County Commissioners, thereby asking that such
special levy be made, and in said petition mentioning the
amount desired to be specially levied; provided the same shall
not exceed the sum of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars
of assessable property as aforesaid; provided, however, that all
taxes collected under the provisions of this Act and turned over
to the Treasurer of the said St. Denis Improvement Association
of Baltimore County, Inc., shall be used exclusively for the
betterment of the roads, sidewalks, drainage, sanitary condi-
tions and other improvements within the area as provided for
in Section Number two of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes
of this Act the metes and bounds of the village of St. Denis
shall be deemed and taken to be as follows: