EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1049

CHAPTER 507.
(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 508.

AN ACT to provide for the assessment, valuation and taxation
of judgments in Carroll County, Maryland, for county pur-
poses only, and to provide for the collection of the tax on
same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the plaintiff in all judgments recorded in the
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County shall
pay annually a tax of eight per centum upon the gross amount
of interest paid each year by the defendant or defendants to the
plaintiff or his assignee, to be collected by the County Commis-
sioners of Carroll County by suit if necessary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for said county shall furnish the County Commissioners
of said county as soon as practicable after the passage of this
Act a complete list of all unpaid judgments not more than
twelve years old, and each month thereafter said Clerk shall
furnish the County Commissioners of said county a list of all
judgments entered in his office since the last of said statements.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the taxes hereby levied
shall be for county purposes only, and if any person or body
corporate shall fail to pay the tax levied by authority of this
Act, at the time other taxes levied for county purposes are due
and payable, the County Treasurer of said county shall pro-
ceed by suit to collect the same, for any year or fraction there-
of.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlawful for
any judgment creditor to require any judgment debtor, or any
one for him, to pay the tax levied on and of said judgment,
but if any judgment creditor should require any such tax on
said judgment to be paid by any such judgment debtor or any
person for him, such judgment debtor shall have the right by
suit to recover such tax as paid.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved April 18th, 1916.