WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 869
CHAPTER 355
(House Bill 385)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
1165 of Flack's 1943 Edition of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County, as amended by Laws of
1947, Extra Session, Chapter 23, to increase the annual
levy by the Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale for
the maintenance of fire prevention equipment from five
cents per hundred to ten cents per hundred dollars of the
assessed valuation of property within the Town, beginning
with the levy for the year 1950, if such increased rate be
approved by a majority of those voting upon the question
at the Town Election to be held in Riverdale on May 2,
1949, and to authorize the submission of the question to
the qualified voters of the Town.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1165 of Flack's 1943 Edition of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County, as amended
by Laws of 1947, Extra Session, Chapter 23, be repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

1165. The assessment of all assessable real property within
the corporate limits of the Mayor and Common Council of
Riverdale for municipal purposes shall be the valuation fixed
by the County Commissioners of Prince George's County for
the purpose of county taxation as prescribed by Article 81
of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), as amended.

The Treasurer of the Mayor and Common Council of River-
dale shall obtain from the County Commissioners of Prince
George's County the list of assessments upon all assessable
real property within the corporate limits of the Town, which
list the County Commissioners are authorized and directed to
furnish to the Treasurer of the Town at the earliest prac-
ticable time after the assessment is made, together with the
notice of any change, revision, modification or correction in
any assessment as it may occur. Beginning with the calendar
year 1948, and annually thereafter, the Mayor and Common
Council of Riverdale are hereby authorized and empowered
to. levy for general municipal purposes against all assessable
real property within the corporate limits of the Town upon
the basis of such assessments an annual tax for town pur-
poses at a rate of taxation not to exceed fifty-five cents per
one hundred dollars of the assessed valuations. The Mayor
and Common Council shall as soon as practicable after the