JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
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AN ACT further to amend the charter Of George


town, in the District of Columbia


Belt enQcted By ne Senate and House IF
Representatives Of the Unned States Of H.
merica in Congress- assembled, That, the
Levy Court of Washington County in the
District of Columbia, shall not possess the pc
wer Of assessing any tax on real orpersonal
property within the limits of the Corpora
tion of Georgetown, nor shall the Corpora.
tion of the said town be obliged to contribute
III any manner towards the expenses or cx-
penditures of said court, except for the one
fourth part Of the expenses Incurred on ac-
count Of the Orphans Court, the Office of
Coroner. the jail of said county, and one half
of the expenses for the opening and repairing
Of roads in the County of Washington, west
cf RocS creek, and leading 10 Georgetown
ProliGtd ai7v0pS, that nothing herein con-
tanned shah be construed to prcvclt the said
Court, or the collector by them appointed,
from collecting all taxes which have been
levied by the said Court Oh real and person
al property within the limits Of Georc cetown
before the passage of this act. and of ppro-
printing the same according to present eX-
isting laws; but that it shall be tn, duty Of
the said Court and the, are hereby adthor-
izcd and directed to use ill tho powers with
which they are now invest d. for collecting
the said tax: .4nd Hrorided .fHrthcr, That
all laws now in force, winch make it the du-
ty Of the said Court to provide for the sap
port of the poor residing within the limits Of
Georgetown, be. and the same are hereby,
repealed, and that henceforth il shall be the
duty of the said Court to provide for the sup
port of such only of the poor of the county as
reside out of the limits Of Washington.


SEC. ., Ind be il fuj1lsr enacted, That
the said Corporation may for the general pur-
poses mentioned il the charter Of said town,
and for the support of the poor annually,
lay tax on all real and personal property
within the limits of Georgetown, not ex-
ceeding seventy cents in the hundred dol
lars, any law to the contrary notwithstand-
| ing.


SEC. 5. .lnd 6cU farther enacted, That
1 this act shall commence and be in force from
and after the passage thereof.


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker Of tho House Of Representatives


JOHN G. CALHOUN,


Ncc-Presidcnt cfthe United States, and


President of the Senate.
AprnoyEn-MAY %, 1926.


= JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.