ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1303

Council shall constitute this section an additional ward of the
City of Annapolis; and when the territory embraced in Section
28 B, shall become annexed to the City of Annapolis the Mayor
and City Council shall constitute this section an additional
ward of the City of Annapolis, and each section shall be en-
titled to one alderman in the City Council of Annapolis, who
shall be a resident of the section which he represents and
elected by the voters thereof on the second Monday in July,
1921, and on every second year thereafter, and all of the in-
habitants thereof shall in all respects and to all intents and
purposes be subject to the powers, jurisdiction and authority
vested, or to be vested by law in the Mayor and City Council
of Annapolis, and to all ordinances now in force, or hereafter
to be enacted; and the parts so annexed shall in all respects be
taken and considered as part of said City of Annapolis.

SECTION 28 J. And be it further enacted, That until the
year 1930, the rate of taxation for city purposes upoii all
lauded property situate within the territory which under the
provisions of this Act, shall be annexed to the City of Annap-
olis, and upon all personal property liable to taxation in said
territory, whether owned by persons, corporations or other-
wise, and upon which taxes would be paid to Anne Aruudel
County, shall at no time exceed the present tax rate of Anne
Arundel County; and until the year 1930, there shall not be
for the purposes of city taxation any increase in the present
assessment of such property as is now assessed; except such
increase as may be made by Anne Arundel County for county
purposes, and all property in said territory which is not now
assessed but which may be within the same period liable to as-
sessment, shall be assessed at the same r-ate as similar property
is now assessed in said territory; and during the said period
up to the year 1930, the City of Annapolis shall expend within
said territory an amount at least equal to the amount of reve-
nue derived from taxation on the basis herein set forth from
said territory, in affording to the residents within said terri-
tory the rights and privileges accorded to and enjoyed by the
residents within what are the present limits of said city; but
nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to require the ex-
penditure by said city of any greater sum; from and after the
year 1930, the property, real and personal, in the territory so
annexed, shall be liable to taxation and assessment, therefor, in
the same manner and form as similar property within the