956 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 425

CHAPTER 425.

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 a line drawn
at right angles to the Frederick Road at the west side of
Beaumont Avenue to a line drawn at right angles to the
said Frederick Road at the east side of Montrose Avenue
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 tax-
payers residing within the area hereinafter denned as the
limits within which property is to be assessed, are hereby au-
thorized, directed and required to make a special levy, to be
collected bv 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 a line drawn at right
angles to the Frederick Road at the west side of Beaumont
Avenue, in the village of Catonsville, to a line drawn at right
angles to the Frederick Road at the east side of Montrose
Avenue in the said village of Catonsville, of the width of
twenty-four hundred (2400) feet, measuring twelve hundred
feet on the north side of the center line of the State highway
known as the Frederick Road and twelve 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 lav
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 de-
nned. Upon the filing of such petition said County Com-
missioners shall give notice of the filing thereof by publica-
tion 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 oppos-
ing said levy signed by the taxpayers residing within the said
area in a number exceeding the number of persons petitioning