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connection with the procuring of the loan, the issuance and
sale of said bonds, the payment of said bonds and interest
thereon, and carrying on the work provided for under the
ordinance, as may be necessary and proper, such bonds to be
issued in such manner, for such amounts, to be payable at
such times, and to bear such rate of interest as the Burgess and
Commissioners of Walkersville shall by ordinance provide, and
when issued such bonds shall be exempt from State, county
and municipal taxation.

SEC. 15. Be it enacted, That the Burgess and Commission-
ers may, whenever they think the public interest requires it,
cause an assessment to be made of all property within the
corporate limits of said town, subject to assessment for State
and county taxes; and they may by ordinance prescribe the
manner in which any such assessment may be made, and how
the same shall be kept, revised and corrected, provide for ad-
justing differences in relation to such assessment, and do all
other things which they may deem necessary and proper in
making such assessment and keeping the same correct: pro-
vided such assessment shall not exceed the assessment for
State and county purposes, which assessment the Burgess and
Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt
as their assessment for municipal purposes for the Corporation
of Walkersville, and they are authorized and empowered to
levy annually, with full power to provide by ordinance, for
collection of same, upon the taxable property of the town,
such taxes as they may think' proper to pay all expenses and
debts of the corporation and obligations incurred in pursuance
of the power conferred by this Act; provided that the tax
hereby authorized to be levied shall not exceed, in any one
year, fifty cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of assess-
able property; such taxes when levied, shall be a lien upon the
property on which such taxes are levied.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted,. That all Acts, or parts of Acts, in-
consistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed, to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That this Act is hereby declared to
be an emergency Act and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health or safety in the town of Walkers-
ville ; and that if this Act shall be passed upon a yea and nay
vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to