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said street lights adjacent to said property, as aforesaid,
or from and after January 1, 1955, whether said water
and sewer mains are laid and street lights erected or not,
the Mayor and Council *of Snow Hill shall have power to
assess said vacant lots or parcels of land, and to levy and
collect taxes thereon at the same rate as on property of
like kind within the corporate limits of Snow Hill as they
heretofore existed.

(d) The Mayor and Council of Snow Hill shall not as-
sess or tax any unimproved agricultural land or farming
implements or stock used exclusively for farming purposes
within said taxing district, which land, implements and
stock are hereby declared to be exempt from Municipal
taxation so long as they are so used. Provided, however,
that dwellings and other buildings and the land upon which
they are erected, and the curtilage and garden used in con-
nection therewith, and all unimproved land platted or laid
out for building lots as other improvements shall be as-
sessed and taxed as set forth in the preceding paragraphs
of this Section.

297D. All of the inhabitants of the territory annexed
to the Town of Snow Hill by this Act shall in all respects
and to all intents and purposes be subject to the powers,
jurisdiction and authority vested or to be vested by law, in
the Mayor and Council of Snow Hill, and to all the ordi-
nances now in force, so far as the same may be consistent
with the provisions of this Act, and the territory so an-
nexed shall in all respects be taken and considered as part
of said Town of Snow Hill.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That
this Act shall take effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 22, 1949.

CHAPTER 273

(Senate Bill 392)

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland to 'any gifts, bequests, de-
vises, grants, sales, leases, conveyances or deeds to and
from any persons and bodies corporate to and for the
use of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore
for the time being and his successors, according to the