 They want to see if this could be reviewed. In his letter, Jones points out that the city charter can't conflict with the state law, and he cited a 1990 case in which the Maryland Court of Appeals, now the Supreme Court of Maryland, of course, ruled that Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties could set a cap on future growth of property tax rates, but could not roll back rates to lower levels. The court made a similar ruling in Talbot County in 1995.