The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-05-08
debating no THE TOWN OF
IN MANCHESTER.
CHAPTER NO. 62s.

I1A1 INO. 1-o-
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact WITH Win
Code or Public Local Laws OF MARY
land, title Carroll County; SUBTLE
Manchester" as amended by Cn ampbeT
w Maryland, nineteen hundred ana
eight, authorizing the Mayor and CON-
mon Council or the town OF Manchester,
to levy tax not 10 exceed tn a ayye eeaas
yalue of property within the corporate
limits or said town of Manchester, Will
certain exceptions, for the improvement
and management OF SAID town anu olner
corporate purposes.
sec. |. BE 1t enacted by the. General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section AZ n
Article Z OF the Code OF Pubnc Local
Laws Of Maryland, title Carroll county,
Chapter 262 of the Acts Of the General
Assembly OF Maryland, nineteen hundred
and eight, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments
so as to read as follows:
Sec. Is. All property. whether real,
personal or mixed, within SAID corporate
limits. except that occupied as churches,
Lebanon Lodge No. 10 A. II. 4 A. M, and
the property owned by Daniel and JACOB
70 such taxes ana charges as may be
deemed necessary by said Mayor ana
Common Council. to support ana MAINTAIN
the expenses which may be nc Any Iine
agement of said town, and for other cor
porate purposes, not exceeding thirty
cents on the. hundred dollars of the
assessed value Of all property within the
corporate limits Of said town, now liable
to assessment and taxation for State ana
County taxation under the laws OF this
State, except as above exempt.
Sec. 2 And be it enacted, That BEFORE
this Act shall become operative, to author
ize said taxation, the question s9aM H., De
chester, at the regular general municipal
election to be held next after the passage
OF this bill, for approval or rejection by
passed therefor, of which election and the
fact that the question is to be submitted
to the voters. notice shall be given for at
posted in five or more public places In
said town, explaining to the qualified
voters the question to be submitted t; at
Manchester shall determine by ballot
whether the levying Of tax hereinbefore
provided shall become operative or not,
and at which election there shall be
written or printed on the ballots Of said
voters the words For the levying Of a
tax" and Against the levying OF tax"
and il a majority Of the ballots cast shall
contain the words For the levying OF
tax" then this Act shall become operative
and binding. but IL majority Of said
the levying Of tax" then this Act shall
be void and Of no effect, and the judges Of
said municipal election or q majority Of
them. shall return to the Mayor of said
town the numbers Of ballots cast For
levying or a tax" and Against the levy
ing of a tax" respectively. and the said
Mayor shall announce the result thereof.
Sec. 3. And he it further enacted. That
this Net shall take effect from the date OF
its passage.
Approved April TO- 1914.
p. L. GoLDSBOROUGH.
Governor.
JAMES McC. Triple.
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
JESSE ID. PRICE,
President of the Senate.
Office of the Chief Clerk Of the House.
l Hereby Certify, That the aforegoing
is a true copy Of an Act of the General
Assembly Of Maryland, passed the
January Session, 1914