THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

the third collection district of Anne Arundel county, for
the years eighteen hundred and forty-three and eighteen
hundred and forty-four, be and he is hereby authorised
and empowered to collect any taxes or balances of taxes
now remaining due and uncollected by him in said dis-
trict, in the same manner and with the same powers and
privileges as are allowed by the existing laws, in such
case made and provided.

CHAP. 224.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said William Bry-
an shall, in every instance, before he shall proceed to the
aforesaid collection, make affidavit before some justice
of the peace of said county, that the taxes remain due
and unpaid, and that he hath not received any security
or satisfaction for the same, or any part thereof, more
than the credits which may be allowed therein.

Make affidavit.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall not con-
tinue in force longer than one year from the passage
thereof.

CHAPTER 224.

In force 1 year.

An act to continue in force such acts of Assembly as
would expire during the present session.

Passed Mar.
2, 1846.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all such acts or parts of acts as would expire with
the present session of the General Assembly, be and the
same are hereby re-enacted and continued in force until
the last Monday in December next, and to the end of the

Acts contin-
ued in force.

session of the General Assembly next thereafter; provi-
ded however, that this act shall not be taken or con-
strued so as to embrace any act or parts of acts which
may have been or shall be repealed, or in any wise modi-
fied at the present session of the General Assembly, or
to extend to any charter or charters of a bank or banks,
or any act of incorporation of any kind or nature whatso-
ever, or the extension of the time of the same or any of
them.

Proviso.