126 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 99

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session
in the yearf!900, as repealed and re-enacted with amendments
by Chapter 434 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land passed at its January Session in the year 1916, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
so as to read as follows:

Section W. The Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy shall an-
nually levy such tax upon all assessable property within the
corporate limits, except such real estate as is used exclusively
for farming purposes, as may be necessary for municipal
purposes, not to exceed in any one year the sum of Fifty
Cents ($. 50) on the one hundred dollars ($100. 00), and all
taxes levied on property assessed as provided by this Act
shall be a lien, on said property—real and personal—until
paid, and interest shall be chargeable on said taxes after
thirty (30) days from the time when said taxes are due and
payable.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be-
come operative and be effective on and after the first day of
June, 1927.

Approved March 18, 1927.

CHAPTER 99.

AN ACT to authorize and provide for the completion of the-
new general indexes to the Land Records and Judgments,
and to authorize and provide for new general indexes to the
Equity Records in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit:
Court for Harford County.

WHEREAS, By Chapter 24 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland of 1924, the Circuit Court for Harford County
was authorized to appoint a committee of three (3) competent
persons, members of the Bar of said Court, to select a satisfac-
tory system of general land and judgment indexes for the Office
of the Clerk of the said Court, to purchase all books needed
therefor, to contract for the making of said indexes, to verify