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rating or credit obtained by any false pretence made to such
person, firm, corporation, association, mercantile, or rating
agency, and who shall obtain from any third person any goods,
wares, merchandise, credit or anything of value upon the credit
or rating obtained, procured, published or furnished as afore-
said shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished as provided, in Section 122 of Article 27 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is one of
emergency, and necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public safety, it shall take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 656..

AN ACT to direct incorporated towns to follow for local pur-
poses the rules' for uniform taxation as provided by Article
15 of the Declaration of Eights for the levying of State,
County and City Taxes, and to empower them to deter-
mine what classes of property shall be subject to local tax-
ation within their respective limits and to adjust their tax
rates accordingly.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That all incorporated towns within this State be, and the
same are hereby directed to follow for local purposes the rules
for uniform taxation within their respective jurisdictions as to
land and uniform taxation within each class or sub-class of
improvements and personal property as provided for the levy-
ing of State, County and City taxes by the amendment to Arti-
cle 15 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Mary-
land, as contained in Chapter 390 of the Acts of 1914 and
adopted by the people of Maryland in the General Election of
1915. And the said incorporated towns shall likewise have the
power, anything in their charters granted to them to the con-
trary notwithstanding, but subject to the Public General Laws
of the State, to determine the classes of property which shall
be the subject of taxation within their respective jurisdictions
and for their local purposes; provided, however, that they fol-
low the rules of classification for taxation as established by said