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products. No resolution shall be adopted by the Board of County
Commissioners under the powers conferred by this section until ten
(10) days after a copy of the proposal therefor has been advertised
in one or more newspapers of general circulation published in Har-
ford County, at least once a week for three weeks with a date therein
specified giving an opportunity for hearing any protests or recom-
mendations thereon. A copy of any such resolution adopted and
passed by the Board of County Commissioners of Harford County
under the authority of this section, certified by the President of the
Board and adopted by the Clerk of the Board, shall be filed with the
Clerk of the Court of Harford County who shall record and index it,
without charging, in a volume provided for that purpose by the Board
of County Commissioners. The resolution shall not become effective
until the copy has been so filed with the Clerk of the Court, and any
resolution so filed shall be admissible as evidence in any Court
proceeding upon certification by the Clerk of the Court of Harford
County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved March 11, 1965.

CHAPTER 113
(Senate Bill 133)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 15 (d) of
Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Supplement),
title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Method of Assessment", and
to add a new Section 15(b-3) to said section to follow immediately
after Section 15(b-2) thereof, revising the provisions concerning
the taxation of stock in business in Harford County, and relating
generally to the rate of taxation applicable within Harford County
to certain kinds of stock in business.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 15 (d) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Method of
Assessment", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and that new Section 15(b-3) be and it is hereby added
to said section to follow immediately after Section 15(b-2) thereof,
and to read as follows:

15.

(d) For the purpose of county taxation in Allegany, Baltimore,
Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett,
[Harford,] Howard, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico
and Worcester counties, such stock in business shall be assessed at
sixty per centum (60%) of such fair average value for the twelve
months preceding the date of finality. For the purpose of county
taxation in Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties,
stock in business shall be assessed at fifty per centum (50%) of such
fair average value for the twelve months preceding the date of
finality.