ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1367

Act shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall
not be held to affect any other section or provision of this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall go
into effect from and after June 1, 1920.
Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 721.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 4
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title, "City of Baltimore," as repealed and re-
enacted by Chapter 286 of the Acts of 1908.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 4 of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title, "City of Baltimore," as re-
pealed and re-enacted by Chapter 286 of the Acts of 1908,
be repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to be designated
as Section 4 of Article 4 of said Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, so as to read as follows:

4. All personal property situated or held in the territory
annexed to Baltimore City by the Act of 1888, Chapter 98,
shall be subject to levy, taxation and assessment in the same
manner and form, and at the same rate of taxation as property
of similar character or description within the old limits of
said city may be subject. It shall be the duty of the Appeal
Tax Court of said city to divide all the real and leasehold
property in said territory into three separate classes, to be
known as urban, suburban and rural property, for the pur-
poses of city taxation, and to revise said classification annually
for city taxation on or before October 1st of each and every
year until and including the year 1938 (after which year all
real and personal property in the Old Annex shall come under
the provisions of Chapter 82 of the Acts of 1918 with respect
to the uniformity of taxation within the entire city limits as
enlarged by that Act), in accordance with the following
classification, said three classes to be defined and subject
to city taxation as follows:

(1) All real and leasehold property in said territory which
is now legally liable to full city taxation and all real and
leasehold property situated in said annexed territory, located