JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1884.

CHAPTER 196.

CHAP 197

An act to divorce Nancy Tharp, of Queen Anne's County,
from her husband Richard Tharp.

Passed Mar 13, 1835

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Nancy Tharp of Queen Anne's county, be henceforth di-
vorced from her husband Richard Tharp, and the marriage
heretofore had and solemnized between them, is declared to
be henceforth and forever null and void, and they are here-
by declared to be mutually released from all and every du-
ty and obligation benefit and advantage growing out and in
consequence of the said marriage, and the said Nancy Tharp
is hereby declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii.

Divorce

CHAPTER 197

An act to provide more effectually for the levy and collection
of the tax imposed for the put pose of Colonizing the free
people of color, of tins State, by the act entitled, an act re-
lating to the people of color in this State, passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter
two hundred and eighty one

Passed Mar 13, 1931

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that the tax imposed upon the assessable property within
the several counties and cities of this State, by the eighth
section of an act passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty one, chapter two hundred and eighty
one, entitled, an act relating to the people of color in this
State, has in many instances not even yet been levied in
several of the counties whilst in some others it has been
duly levied, collected, and paid into the Treasury, There

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land That it shall be and it is hereby made the absolute duty
of the levy court of commissioner of the county, as the case
maybe, of the several counties of this State, and of the
Mayor or City Council of the city of Baltimore, to levy on
the asset sable property within then several and respect
tive counties, and the city of Baltimore annually hereafter,
during the continuance of the act of December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter two hundred

Duty to levy en-

joined