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ment of any claim until an appropriation therefor shall have
been duly signed by the Mayor of said town.

The Council shall, annually, prepare and publish, not later
than the first day of May of each year, a parallel statement
of the appropriations, and the expenditures under said appro-
priations, of the funds of the town. The Council shall also,
cause to be made from time to time, during the said three-year
periods, assessments of improvements made and of other prop-
erty not contained in the general assessment list. And they
shall make such other provisions as in their judgment may be
necessary to carry into full force and effect the assessments
herein provided for.

The Mayor and Town Council are authorized from time to
time to incur corporate indebtedness for the purpose of making
any public improvement for municipal purposes within said
town, as said Mayor and Town Council may determine, pro-
vided, however, that any indebtedness so incurred, together with
any outstanding indebtedness theretofore incurred under this
authority, shall at no time exceed a sum greater than two and
one-half per cent, of the assessed valuation, real and personal,
of said Town of Kensington as the same appears on its assess-
ment and levy books. The Mayor and Town Council is hereby
authorized to levy a special loan redemption tax, for the pay-
ment of any debt so incurred, or for the redemption of any evi-
dence or evidences of indebtedness, as the case may be, with
such annual interest thereon, not exceeding six per cent, per
annum, as may be contracted to be paid, which special loan
redemption tax shall be in addition to the municipal tax of said
Town of Kensington as now provided by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 185.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
226 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Allegany County, " sub-title "Sheriff, " as said section was
enacted by Chapter 202 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1902, said section as amended relating to