1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

chap. 299.

CHAPTER 297.

Passed March
9, 1842.

An act to levy a Tax on certain articles therein mentioned.

Two dollars
and a half on
silver plate.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the lax on silver plate shall hereafter be
an annual tax of two and a half dollars in the hundred dol-
lars, on the assessed value thereof, in all cases where the
such assessed value to any one person exceeds the sum of
fifty dollars,, which tax shall be taken in lieu of all other
State tax on silver plate, and shall be collected and paid
agreeably to the act of March session eighteen hundred
and forty-one, chapter twenty-three, and the supplements

Watches-
rate of tax.

thereto.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the tax on watches shall be
hereafter according to the following rate, that is to say: on
every gold lever watch or other watch of like value, a tax
of one dollar; on every other gold watch, a lax of fifty
cents; on every silver lever watch, and other silver watch of
like value, a tax of twenty-five cents; on every other watch
of whatsoever description, twelve and a half cents, which
tax shall be in lieu of all other State tax on watches, and
shall be collected in the manner directed in the first section
of this act, for the collection of the tax therein mentioned.

CHAPTER 293.

Passed March.
9, 1842.

An act for the relief of William H. Fitzhugh, former
Collector of Washington County.

Time allow-
ed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That William H. Fitzhugh, former collector of Washington
county, be and he is hereby allowed until the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to complete his
collections.

CHAPTER 299.

Passed March
9, 1842.

An act to regulate the compensation of Jurors and Witness-
es in Worcester County.

Two dollars
per day and
mileage.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That each and every juror hereafter to be sum-