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within said corporate limits, except that occupied as churches,
schools and the property owned by Lebanon Lodge, No. 175,
A. F. & A. M., and the property owned by Daniel and Jacob
Lodge, No. 23, I. O. O. F., shall be subject to such taxes and
charges as may be deemed necessary by said Mayor and Com-
mon Council, to support and maintain the expenses which may
be at any time incurred in the improvement and management
of said town, and for other corporate purposes, not exceeding
fifty cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed value of all
property within the corporate limits of said town, now liable to
assessment and taxation for State and county taxation under
the laws of this State, except as above exempt.

SECTION 2. And be it further exacted. That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage, it being hereby de-
clared an emergency law and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety.

Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 157.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners
of Talbot County, Maryland to borrow money for the
purpose of erecting and equipping a school building at
Trappe in said county, including the purchase of sufficient
land, if necessary; to issue bonds therefor; and to levy a
tax for the payment of said bonds and the interest
thereon.

SECTION .1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Talbot County be
and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to
borrow the sum of forty'thousand dollars ($40,000.00) upon
the faith and credit of Talbot County, and to issue coupon
bonds therefor in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00)
each, to be signed by the President of the Board of County
Commissioners of Talbot County, and attested by the Treas-
urer of said county, with the corporate seal of said Board of
County Commissioners affixed thereto, which said bonds shall
be designated the '' Trappe School Building Bonds,'' and shall
bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, pay-
able semi-annually. The said bonds shall be sold by the said