1366 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 575

officers of the Town. He shall represent the Town in all cases
before any Court in the State of Maryland, and he shall prose-
cute in the name of the Town Commissioners all violations of
ordinances carrying a criminal penalty or fine.

TAXATION

80. (General Powers. ) The Town Commissioners shall
have power to levy and collect a tax on the assessable prop-
erty in the Town for its general corporate and municipal
purposes not to exceed Seventy-five Cents (75^) on each one
hundred dollars worth in any one year, provided that nothing
in this section shall be so construed as to relieve the Town
Commissioners from levying any taxes for payment of any
bond or interest thereon on any present or future bonded in-
debtedness of said Town, which is now, or maybe, by any law
required to be levied.

81. (Additional Powers. ) The Town Commissioners are
authorized and directed to levy annually on the assessable
property in the Town, in addition to all other taxes which
they are authorized to levy, a sum of money, not to exceed
seven cents on each one hundred dollars worth in any one
year, as a special tax for the housing, use, maintenance and
equipment of the Good Will Fire Company, Inc., the volun-
teer fire company now organized in said Town, and for the
housing, use, maintenance and equipment of its successor if
said company shall cease to exist, the said additional or
special tax to be made and levied at the time of levying other
taxes for the use of the Town and to be collected at the same
time and in the same manner that the other taxes levied for
the use of said Town are collected, all provisions of law for
the collection thereof being hereby made applicable to the
collection of said special tax.

82. (Exemptions. ) (a) All land and farm property in-
cluded within the present limits of the Town and now operated
solely as a farm shall be exempt from Town taxation so long
as it is used and operated as a farm.

(b) All commercial and residential property, both real
and personal, within that portion of said Town which for the
first time became a part of the Town by Chapter 837, Laws of
Maryland 1947, shall only be taxed to the extent that said
property in said portion shall receive the facilities of the
Town enjoyed by the residents within the limits of the Town
as the said limits existed prior to the passage of Chapter 837
aforesaid.