THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 77

WHEREAS, State-wide assessment laws now provide that
municipal corporations shall use the assessments as deter-
mined by county officials, thereby making obsolete part of
Section 409 and all of Section 410 of the charter of the
town of Rising Sun; now therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 409 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
' Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cecil County",
sub-title "Rising Sun", as said section was amended by
Chapter 571 of the Acts of 1949, be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

409. The President and Commissioners shall have power
to levy and collect taxes in said town not exceeding in any
one year One Dollar on the Hundred Dollars on the assess-
able property in said town [, and once in every five years,
or oftener if they think proper, they shall assess and value
the property in said town in the same manner and with
like authority as county assessors; provided, that in assess-
ing any of the lands within the town which may be occu-
pied as farms or may be part of farms, such lands shall
be valued and assessed at its market value as lots of four
acres of ground, with the buildings and improvements
thereon, and shall not be valued and assessed by the num-
ber of acres therein].

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 410 of
said Article and sub-title be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved March 9, 1953.

CHAPTER 38
(Senate Bill 76)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
176 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of

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