802 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 445

mitted as evidence in all courts of this State. Any person in-
terfering with the agents, servants or employees of the said
Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City, or any of them, in the
discharge of the duties imposed by this section, or removing or
interfering with said boundary stones or posts planted as afore-
said, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine
of not less than ten dollars ($10. 00) or more than fifty dollars
($50. 00), to be recovered by an action in the Circuit Court
for Worcester County or before any Justice of the Peace
thereof.

Section 254-C. That the territory hereby added to the
corporate limits of the town of Pocomoke City is hereby de-
clared to be a taxable district and the Mayor and Council
of Pocomoke City shall have full power to assess, levy and
collect within said taxable district any and all taxes whatso-
ever which it has or shall be authorized to assess, levy or collect
within the taxable limits of the town of Pocomoke City as it
heretofore existed, subject, however, to the following limita-
tions, restrictions and conditions:

(a) No taxes shall be levied or collected for municipal
purposes on any property within said district until the year

1928.

(b) The tax rate on all personal property within said dis-
trict, except farming implements and stock used exclusively
for farming purposes, which are hereinafter exempted from
municipal taxation, shall be twenty-five cents (25c. ) on every
one hundred, dollars ($100. 00) of assessed personal property
until December 31, 1932, and from and after said date the tax
rate on said personal property shall be the same as the tax rate
on personal property within the old corporate limits of Poco-
moke City.

(c) The tax rate on real property, improved by dwellings
or other buildings, within said district shall not exceed twenty-
five cents (25c. ) on every one hundred dollars ($100. 00) of
assessed property for a period of ten (10) years accounting
from the first day of January, 1928, unless within said period
of ten (10) years water and sewer mains shall be laid adjacent
to said improved real property under one or more streets on
which said improved real property is situated and unless street
lights shall be erected and maintained adjacent to said im-
proved real property on one or more streets on which said