1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 175.

Passed March
5, 1847.

CHAPTER 174.

An act for the relief of the Incorporated Literary and
Charitable Institutions oj this State.

Released.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That tbe act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter, three hundred
and nineteen be, and the same is heicby repealed; and
all taxes laid and imposed under the said act, are hereby
released.

Exempt, &c.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all of the grounds and
premises owned, used and occupied by the several incor-
porated Literary and Charitable Institutions of this State,
not exceeding forty acres, together with the buildings
thereon, and all and singular the scientific instruments,
libraries, furniture and chattels, belonging to, and used in
and about such institutions be, and the same are hereby
exempt from all and all manner of assessments and taxa-
tion for State or local purposes; provided always, that
all other property and estate, rents and stocks, owned by
and belonging to each and every such institution, shall
be liable to assessment and taxation in the same manner
and to the sdme extent, as any other similar properly in

this State.

CHAPTER 175.

Passed March
5, 1847.

A further additional supplement to the act entitled, an act
for the General Valuation and Assessment of Property
in this State, and to provide a tax to pay the debts of the
State, passed at March session, eighteen hundred and
forty-one, chapter twenty-three.

Not to inter-
fere.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That nothing contained in the act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter two
hundred and three, shall be so construed as to deprive
the Governor of the power given by the eighth section
of the act passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and forty-two, chapter two hundred and sixty-nine, to
remit all or any part of the interest chargeable to collec-
tors under the act to which this is a further supplement.