WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 307

Town of Cottage City, shall be and the same are hereby
extended and made applicable to such portion of Prince
George's County as is, under the provisions of this Act, an-
nexed to and made a part of the said Town of Cottage City.
Nothing herein, or elsewhere in this Act, shall affect the power
of the Cottage City Commission to amend or repeal any
ordinance existing at the date of the passage of this Act, or
to enact and ordain any ordinance which, at the date of the
passage of this Act, or hereafter, it may be authorized to
enact and ordain.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the new territory
hereby annexed to said town by this Act, shall constitute and
become the Fifth Ward of the said Town of Cottage City.
The said Cottage City Commission, as soon as practicable
after the passage of this Act, shall appoint registration officers
and provide for the registration of voters in said annexed
territory, in accordance with the law providing for the regis-
tration of voters in the Town of Cottage City. All voters so
registered shall be entitled to vote for commissioners and
shall have the same rights and privileges as voters in the
Town of Cottage City.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That persons resident
and property situate within the territory which by this Act is
annexed to the Town of Cottage City, shall be exempt from
taxation by the said Town Commissioners of Cottage City
for the year 1948. Beginning with the municipal levy to be
made in the year 1949, the persons so resident and the prop-
erty so situate shall be subject to the same taxes, assessments,
license fees and charges as are now imposed upon said town
or may be hereafter imposed thereon. The Treasurer of said
Town of Cottage City is authorized and required, in addition
to the duties heretofore imposed upon him, to collect all
municipal taxes, assessments, license fees and charges levied,
assessed and imposed by the said Cottage City Commission
upon the persons resident and property situate within said
annexed territory, which shall be levied or assessed by the
said Cottage City Commission.

SEC. 5. And he it further enacted, That all roads, streets,
avenues or alleys lying within the territory annexed to the
said town by this Act, and heretofore dedicated or acquired
by condemnation proceedings under the provisions of any of
the laws of Maryland, or the Common Law, and in actual
general use as a road, street, avenue or alley, shall be held
to be validly constituted public highways of the Town of
Cottage City.