1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 36.

CHAPTER 36.

Passed Mar. 20,
1840.

A further supplement to chapter two hundred and eighty-
one, of December session eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
entitled an act relating to the People of Color in this
State.

Com. of tax of
Carroll co. to
to levy, &c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners
of the tax of Carroll county to levy upon the assessable
property in the said county, and cause to be duly collected
and paid into the Western Shore Treasury, two hundred
and twenty-four dollars and eighteen cents, of the sums
theretofore by the said original act directed to be levied in
Frederick and Baltimore counties, together with the inter-
est on the whole, which shall have been in arrear, it being
the residue of Carroll county's proportion thereof, for the
years eighteen hundred and thirty-seven and eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, unprovided for by chapter two
hundred and sixty-nine, of the acts of December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

To levy yearly.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That, for the year eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, and for the current and each
future year, the commissioners of the tax of Carroll coun-
ty shall levy upon the assessable property in the said
county, and cause to be collected and paid into the Wes-
tern Shore Treasury, yearly, on or before the day in that
behalf limited by law, the sum of four hundred and thirty-
nine dollars and fifty-two cents for each year, as the pro-
portion properly chargeable upon so much of Frederick
and Baltimore counties as now constitute Carroll county.

Money payable
to Col. society

not to exceed

$10, 000 in any
one year.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the sum or sums of

money which it shall be lawful hereafter for the Treasurer
of the Western Shore, in pursuance of the second section
of the original act, to which this is a further supplement,
to pay to the Board of Managers of the State Coloniza-
tion, or their order, shall not together exceed ten thousand
dollars in the current or any future fiscal year of this
State.

Repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts heretofore
passed in relation to payments by Carroll county on ac-
count of the colonization tax, be and the same are hereby
repealed.