818 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 374

of two hundred and fifty feet from said road to the Bladens-
burg corporation line, with the exception of the aforesaid prop-
erties of Mrs. E. T. Shields and John B. Musquiller, then run-
ning due west to the northeast corner of the Blandensburg
corporation line, then with the north line of the Blandens-
burg corporation line to the Eastern Branch, then with the
Eastern Branch to the beginning.

SEC. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Prince
George's County are hereby authorized, empowered and di-
rected to levy and cause to be collected from the property own-
ers at the time of the county tax levy, for the year commencing
July 1, 1922, and ending June 30, 1923, and each succeeding
year, within the said village known as the Edmonston District
as named and created by this Act, fifteen cents on each one
hundred ($100) dollars of the assessable value of the real and
personal property in said village, to be collected as all other
county taxes in said county are collected, to be paid over by
said Board of County Commissioners to the Treasurer of the
committee herein authorized to be created, or his successors,
selected by the majority of the members of said committee upon
said Treasurer having been duly selected by a majority of such
committee, and giving bond to said Board of County Commis-
sioners, to be approved by one of the Judges of the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County, in a penal sum to be fixed
by said Judge, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his
duties as such Treasurer. And said Board of County Commis-
sioners shall also order and have paid over to said Treasurer
the proportion of the county road tax to be levied and collected
in the same manner as though the said the Edmonston District '
was an incorporated town, and said the Edmonston District for
such purpose, shall be considered by said Board of County
Commissioners as an incorporated town of said county; all of
said funds to be used directly by or through said committee,
exclusively for opening, improving, widening, maintaining, re-
pairing and lighting the streets and for roads, lanes, alleys,
sidewalks, parking, drainage, sewage, sanitation and other
village improvements, and for furnishing police and fire pro-
tection, clerical and other public service, including the re-
moval of ashes, garbage and other refuse and the disposal
thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if a majority of
the said the Edmonston District Citizens Committee decide
the sum hereinbefore authorized to be taxed and levied is an