1364 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 916

financial liability on behalf of said town in excess of the
current annual revenues of said town.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Prince George's County shall, and they are hereby
directed to return and pay over annually to the Treasurer of
the Town of Morningside, three-fourths (3/4) of the full amount
of the road and bridge tax levied and collected each fiscal
year from property within the said Town of Morningside in
the same amount and manner as is now required by the law
to be paid to incorporated towns in said County, the money
so returned to be expended by the said Treasurer of the Town
of Morningside for improving, maintaining and repairing the
roads, streets, and alleys in said town.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted:

(A) That the Town of Morningside and the Morningside
Commission shall have power to levy, on the established date
for levy in Prince George's County of each year, beginning
with the calendar year succeeding the adoption of this Charter,
the tax year commencing on the first day of July, taxes at the
rate of not exceeding ten cents ($. 10) on each one hundred
dollars ($100. 00) of the assessable value of real and personal
property within said town, based on the State and County
assessments for all purposes; and that the Treasurer of Prince
George's County shall be and he is hereby authorized to give
the Morningside Commission, or the Treasurer of said town,
a copy of the tax list for said town annually or as often as
is necessary, the boundaries of which are laid down in Section
2 of this Charter; and all taxes so levied shall be a lien on
any and all property of the person, firm, partnership, company,
association or corporation against whom they may be levied;
and the taxes for each year shall be payable on the first day
of July next succeeding the levy thereof, and shall be in
arrears and subject to legal interest from and after that date.

(B. ) That the taxes provided for in Paragraph A of this
section shall be levied by ordinance enacted by the Morning-
side Commission, and any such ordinance shall be in force and
effect from and after the date of the enactment of the same.
And nothing contained in Section 8 of this Act shall apply
to any ordinance so levying such taxes, the intent of this
Section 6 being that the Morningside Commission shall have
power, and it shall be the duty of said Commission, to enact
such ordinances levying such taxes without submitting any
such ordinance to a vote of the residents of said town, and
that any such ordinance so levying such taxes shall be in
force immediately upon the enactment of such ordinance.