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of said ordinances or offences set forth in said ordinances, in
addition to the action of debt or such other civil remedies
as exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalties
thereunto affixed, the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg
may affix such reasonable fine not exceeding one hundred and
fifty dollars in any case as to them may appear right, and
in default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may pro-
vide for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not
exceeding thirty days, or until such is paid, which imprison-
ment may be in the town lockup or in the Allegany County Jail.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency law and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public safety, and being passed by a "Yea"
and "Nay" vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 1, 1922.

CHAPTER 32.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 118
and 125 of Offutt's Code of the Local Laws of Baltimore
County of the Edition of 1916, as said sections were re-
pealed and re-enacted by Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1920,
relating to the levy of taxes and valuations of property sub-
ject to taxation in Baltimore County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 118 and 125 of Offutt's Code of the Local
Laws of Baltimore County of the Edition of 1916, as the same
were repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1920,
be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

Section 118. They shall levy the State and county taxes
for said county on or before the fifteenth day of November in
each year.

Section 125. For the collection of taxes in Baltimore
County the valuation of property subject to taxation in
said county as it shall appear upon the assessment books
on the fifteenth day of October in each and every year

shall be final and conclusive and constitute the basis upon