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and improvements and any other property assessed for County
tax purposes within said area, and the tax so levied and shall be
collected as County taxes now are or may be hereafter by law
levied and collected, and have the same priority, rights, bear the
same interest and penalties and in every respect be treated the
same as County taxes. The taxes so levied for the ensuing year
shall be collected by the tax collecting authorities of said county
and every sixty days they shall remit the whole amount of the
taxes so levied and collected to the Treasurer of the said Chevy
Chase Fire Department, Inc., or its successor or successors,
upon the said Treasurer giving a corporate bond to said County
Commissioners of Montgomery County to be approved by the
Judge of the Circuit Court for said county in a penal sum to be
fixed by said Judge, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of
the duties of said Treasurer. From the money so received the
Treasurer of the said Chevy Chase Fire Department, Inc., its
successor or successors, shall pay all proper costs, expenses,
claims and demands, including salaries to firemen of said Fire
Department, and such principal and interest on any encum-
brances on the real estate owned by said Fire Department as
may be due, that are necessary to properly establish, maintain
and operate said Fire Department. Should the tax so col-
lected in any one year be inadequate to defray the said costs,
expenses, claims and demands, such deficiency may be added
to the amount required for the next ensuing year and collected
in the next year's taxes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all of 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 April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 249.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of Westminster by repealing
Section 225 of Article 7 of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title "Carroll County, " sub-title "Westminster, " as amended
and re-enacted by Chapter 341 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland passed at its January Session in the
year 1910, and to re-enact the same with amendments.