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certified by said Clerk under the seal of his office shall be ad-
mitted as evidence by all courts within this State.

88A. The property, real and personal, located within. the new
lines of said town and without the old lines thereof shall pay for
municipal purposes until after the levy for 1935 the amount de-
ducted by the County Commissioners of Harford County for
road and bridge taxes under the charter of said town and be-
ginning with the levy of 1935 and thereafter all said property
shall pay full town taxes.

SEC. 3. And "be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 2, 1929.

CHAPTER 111.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 70A
of Article 21 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Talbot County, " sub-title "Easton, " as said section was
amended by Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1927.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 70A of Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County, " sub-
title "Easton, " as said section was amended by Chapter 18 of
the Acts of 1927, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read as follows:

70A. The Mayor and City Council have the power to regu-
late and prescribe by ordinance, as a protection against fire,
whether houses to be built or erected in said town shall be built
of wood or other materials, and to prescribe in what parts and
sections thereof buildings of wood may be erected and in what
parts or sections of the same buildings of wood shall not be
erected, and to prescribe penalties for violating said ordinance
by erecting buildings of wood in parts or sections thereof where
the same are not allowed under said ordinance; to require by
ordinance that" every person who wishes or purposes to erect
or add to any building or buildings in said town to make a
written application to the Mayor and Council for a permit to