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CHAPTER 203.
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AN ACT to amend article fifteen, of the Code of Public Local
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Laws, title "Kent county," sub-title "County Commissioners,"
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by adding five new sections thereto requiring the county com-
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missioners to appoint a county treasurer, and to define his
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powers" and duties, to follow section eighty-seven, and to be-
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known as "Sections eighty-seven A, eighty-seven B, eighty-
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seven C, eighty-seven D and eighty-seven E."
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That five new sections be and the same are hereby added to article-
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To add.
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fifteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent county,"
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sub-title "County Commissioners," to follow section eighty-seven,.
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and to be designated as "eighty-seven A, eighty-seven B, eighty-
seven C, eighty-seven D and eighty-seven E."
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87 A. The county commissioners of Kent county, at their first
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regular meeting in the month of April, beginning with the year
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eighteen hundred and ninety, and at the aforesaid time of regular
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meeting every two. years thereafter, shall appoint some citizen of
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said county, other than the clerk to said commissioners, to be-
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county treasurer, who shall hold his office for two years, whose
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duty it shall be to collect all State and county taxes levied in
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Kent county, and said treasurer shall assess all new or unassessed
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To assess.
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property in said county; and for this purpose he is clothed with
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all the powers possessed by collectors of taxes under the pro-
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visions of the Code of Public General Laws, and said treasurer
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may appoint one. or more deputies, who shall be authorized to act
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in his place, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and to whom
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he may pay such compensation as he may deem proper, to be de-
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ducted from his salary, and said treasurer shall receive an annual
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salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and the further sum of twenty-
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five cents for each person's property assessed by him, and five cents
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for each dog or bitch returned to the county commissioners and by
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them ordered to be entered on the assessment books of the county,
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but dogs in incorporated towns which impose a tax thereon shall
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not be assessed by the county commissioners; said treasurer shall
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