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personnel used in the maintenance thereof. The County Com-
missioners are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase,
acquire and maintain public dumps, dump sites and machinery
and equipment therefor for the use of residents not living in
any incorporated city or town and to pay for the same either
from funds levied for highways on the assessable property
outside the incorporated cities and towns, or to levy a tax
therefor on the assessable property located outside the limits
of any incorporated city or town.

SEC. 2. And 'be it further enacted,. That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved March 31, 1949.

CHAPTER 161

(House Bill 233)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
468 of Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (Higinbothom's 1942 Edition), title "Harford County",
sub-title "Taxes and County Treasurer", as amended by
Chapter 655 of the Acts of 1945, permitting authorization
of a discount on personal property tax.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 468 of Article 13 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (Higinbothom's 1942 Edition), title
"Harford County", sub-title "Taxes and County Treasurer",
as amended by Chapter 655 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

468. County taxes shall be due as soon as they are levied,
and shall bear interest from the first day of May, at the rate
of six per cent, and on all county taxes paid before May 1st,
a discount of one-half per centum per month shall be allowed;
except on taxes levied against motor vehicles on which no
discount shall be allowed. County taxes on personal property
assessed annually by the Assessors of Harford County, pur-
suant to questionnaire and as to which the date of finality
is January 1 of the current year, shall not be due and pay-
able until thirty days after the bills therefor have been made
up by the County Treasurer, and the County Commissioners
may by resolution authorize a discount or discounts, not to