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mains are laid and street lights erected or not, the Mayor
and Council of Pocomoke City 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 Pocomoke City as they here-
tofore existed.

(d) The Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City shall not
assess or tax any unimproved agricultural land or farm
implements or stock used exclusively for farming purposes
within said taxing district, which land, implements and
stock are hereby declared exempt from municipal taxes 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 connection
therewith and all unimproved land platted or laid out for
building lots as other improvements shall be assessed and
taxed as set forth in the preceding paragraphs of this sec-
tion.

191N. All of the inhabitants of the territory annexed to
the town of Pocomoke City by this Act shall, in all re-
spects, 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 Pocomoke City, and
to all the ordinances now in force, so far as the same may
be consistent with the provisions of this Act and the terri-
tory so annexed shall, in all respects, be taken and con-
sidered as part of the town of Pocomoke City.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the
two houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 27, 1953.

CHAPTER 689
(House Bill 432)

AN ACT to repeal Section 111 of Article 93 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Testa-

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.