186 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 116

WHEREAS. The said County Commissioners after receiving
the deposit as aforesaid, and granting to the aforesaid com-
pany certain rights, to use certain public roads of said Cecil
County, and learning that the said company required addi-
tional time to perfect its plans, refused to grant any extension
and unwarrantably covered into the Treasury the said sum of
fifteen hundred dollars; therefore:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Cecil County be and
they are hereby authorized and directed to levy the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars at the next general levy for taxes in
Cecil County and pay over said sum to Edwin R. Cochran,
Jr., as a return to him of the amount of money deposited by
him with the said County Commissioners in connection with a
franchise granted to the Kent and Cecil Light, Power and
Railway Company.

Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 116.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 146
of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws, of the
State of Maryland, title "Cecil County," sub-title "Elk-
ton."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 146 of Article 8 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Cecil County." sub-title
"Elkton," he and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

146. The said Board shall have power to levy and collect
taxes annually in the town (not exceeding in any one year
sixty cents on the one hundred dollars) on the assessable
property of the said town; and said Board shall have power
to pass ordinances regulating the time and manner of pay-
ment of said taxes, and to provide for an early payment of
the same by making provisions for the allowance of such dis-
counts as may be necessary thereto; and once in every ten
years or oftener if they shall think proper, they shall appoint
an assessor, who shall under oath assess and value the prop-