494 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 171
CHAPTER 171.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the town of Cottage
City and the Cottage City Commission, in Prince George's
County, Maryland, with the approval of the qualified voters
of said town, to levy and collect annually a special assess-
ment of twelve cents on each one hundred dollars of the
assessable value of real and persona] property within said
town, based on the State and County assessments; the tax
so levied and money collected thereon to be paid to the Cot-
tage City Volunteer Fire Company as long as it provides
adequate fire protection to the residents and property with-
in the corporate limits of the town of Cottage City, said
money to be used by the said Cottage City Volunteer Fire
Company for the exclusive use in its maintenance, operation,
are and purchase of new equipment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the town of Cottage City, in Prince George's
County, Maryland, a municipal corporation, and the Cottage
City Commission be and it is hereby authorized, empowered
and directed to levy and collect annually a special assessment
of twelve cents on each one hundred dollars, based on the
State and County Assessments, on all real and personal prop-
erty situated within the town of Cottage City in Prince
George's County, Maryland, the money derived from said spe-
cial assessment to be paid to the Cottage City Volunteer Fire
Company as long as it provides adequate fire protection to the
residents and property within the corporate limits of the town
of Cottage City, said money to be used by the said Cottage City
Volunteer Fire Company for the exclusive use in its mainte-
nance, operation, care and purchase of new equipment, a de-
tailed statement of the expenditures of such money to be sub-
mitted to the Cottage City Commission by the Cottage City
Volunteer Fire Company in the months of January and July
of each year, the levy for said special assessment to be made
before the first day of July of each year.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the town of Cottage
City and the Cottage City Commission are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to collect the special assessment pro-
vided for in Section 1 hereof in the same manner provided in
the chatter of the town of Cottage City for the collection of
taxes on real and personal property.