184 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 90

elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect on the date of its passage.

Approved March 27th, 1922.

CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT to authorize and require the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County under certain conditions to make a special
levy upon the taxable real estate along and near the State
highway known as the Frederick Road to be used for laying
a sidewalk along said highway from the western boundary
line of Baltimore City to the east side of Bishop's Lane in
the village of Catonsville.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Baltimore County,
when petitioned to do so by not less than twenty-five taxpayers
residing within the area hereinafter defined as the limits with-
in which property is to be assessed, are hereby authorized, di-
rected and required to make a special levy, to be collected by
the Treasurer of Baltimore County as other taxes are collected,
upon all of the property in the First District of said Baltimore
County lying within the area described as follows:

The strip of land extending from the western boundary line
of Baltimore City to a line drawn at right angles to the Fred-
erick Road at the east side of Bishop's Lane in the village of
Catonsville of the width of twenty-seven hundred (2700) feet
measuring twelve hundred feet on the north side of the center
line of the state highway known as the Frederick Road and
fifteen hundred feet on the south side of said center line.

That said special levy shall be made for the year succeeding
the filing of such petition and shall be continued from year to
year until a sufficient amount shall have been obtained to lay
the entire sidewalk hereinafter described, but such levy shall
not in any one year exceed twenty cents upon the hundred dol-
lars of the taxable real estate within the area hereinbefore
defined. Upon the filing of such petition said County Commis-
sioners shall give notice of the filing thereof by publication in
one or more newspapers published in Baltimore County; and if
within thirty days after the publication of said notice there
shall be filed with said Commissioners a petition opposing said
levy signed by the taxpayers residing within the said area in a