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land of the year 1908, entitled "An Act to incorporate the
town of Rock Hall in Kent County, " as said Section 17 was

repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 8 of the Acts of 1918,
authorizing an increase in the tax rate of Rock Hall.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 17 of Chapter 171 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of the year 1908, entitled "An
Act to incorporate the town of Rock Hall in Kent County, " as
said Section 17 was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 8 of
the Acts of 1918, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

17. The said corporation shall have the power to levy
and collect taxes in said town not exceeding the rate of one
dollar on the hundred dollars, in any one year, on all as-
sessable property in said town, on the same basis of assess-
ment as the said property shall for said year be assessed for
state and county purposes; provided, that all property in said
corporate limits used only for agricultural purposes shall only
be assessed as such agricultural property and not as town lots.
On the first day of October in each year taxes shall be deemed
to be in arrears and interest shall be charged and collected
from that date until paid; and immediately after the first day
of October, the collector of taxes shall deliver to each delin-
quent who has not prior thereto received the same, an account
of his assessment and the taxes and interest due thereon, with a
notice and warning to said delinquent thereto attached, that
unless payment be made in full within thirty days from the
delivery of said notice, the same will be collected by process of
law; and the said collector may at any time after the first day
of November proceed to seize, levy upon and sue the property
of said delinquent, or so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay said taxes with interest and costs thereon, and on the first
day of December of each year the collector shall immediately

proceed to collect all unpaid tax bills by seizing, levying upon,
advertising and sueing said property, or so much thereof as
may be necessary to pay said taxes, together with interest
charges and costs of sale, and for this purpose the said collector
is hereby clothed with all the powers possessed by collectors of
taxes under the Code of Public General Laws.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this. Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.