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shall be entitled to compensation for such work, to be paid by
the County Commissioners in said County. Should any mort-
gagee neglect or refuse to pay said tax when due, the collector
of taxes is hereby authorized to seize and sell all his interest
in said mortgage in the same manner that other property is
now sold for taxes in said County.

729E. Any mortgagor paying the tax hereby required to
be paid by the mortgagee shall at any time upon satisfactory
proof of the same in any court of equity of this State be entitled
to have the amount so paid with interest at the rate of six per
centum per annum deducted from the mortgage debt.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That if any section of this
Act or any provision of any section of this Act, or the applica-
tion thereof to any person or circumstances, or section of the
Code of Public General Laws enacted or re-enacted or amended
by this Act, or any provision of any such section or the appli-
cation thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid,
the remainder of the Act and of said section of the Act or of
said section of the Code of Public General Laws and the
application thereof to other persons or circumstances shall
not be affected thereby; and if any exemption or exception
from any tax is held invalid, the tax shall apply without such
exemption or exception.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That all Acts and parts of
Acts, whether Public General, Public Local, or Special, and
all charters or ordinances of any city or resolutions of the
County Commissioners, inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act, be and they are hereby repealed to the extent of
such inconsistency, provided that all laws, charters, ordi-
nances and resolutions repealed by this Act shall neverthe-
less remain in force for the assessment and collection of
any tax levied or incurred, or the enforcement of any penalty
incurred, or the punishment of any crime committed, prior to
the first clay of June, 1929; provided, further, that nothing
herein contained shall affect any contract 'by way of exemption
from taxation or otherwise the obligation of which the State
is precluded from impairing by the Constitution of the United
States. And without limiting in any respect the generality of
the foregoing language, it is hereby expressly declared that
all State taxes for the year 1929, and all county and/or city
taxes levied or which ought to have been levied before June 1st,,