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shall continue to act until their powers shall be super-
seded by some future act of Assembly; Provided,
That no member of the levy court, or orphan's court,
or register of will, shall be a commissioner of the
tax.
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Meetings of
commission-
ers — assessors
— their duties.
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5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commis-
sioners of the tax shall meet at the place where the
county courts are usually held in their respective
counties, on the first Monday of February eighteen
hundred and thirteen, or as soon thereafter as they
may have notice of this act, and as often after as
shall be necessary; and the said commissioners, at
their said meeting shall appoint a clerk. And where-
as, The several counties in this State are divided
into election districts, the said commissioners shall
also appoint for each of the said districts, one or more
sensible and active person or persons, inhabitants of
the district, to be assessor or assessors of the real
and personal property in such district; and the said
commissioners shall enter in a book to be kept for
that purpose, the name of the person or persons ap-
pointed assessor in each district, and shall immedi-
ately after such choice appoint a place and day, not
exceeding ten days thereafter, of which five days no-
tice shall be given by some one of the commissioners
to each assessor, for the said assessors to appear be-
fore them; and at their appearance the said commis-
sioners shall openly read such parts of this act, and
the act to ascertain the value of the land in the seve-
ral counties of this State, for the purpose of laying
the public assessment, passed at November session
seventeen hundred and eighty-five, as relate to their
duty, and shall advise them in what manner to. make
their assessment, and in what form to return their
certificates thereof, and how to perform the several
duties required of them by this act and the before
mentioned act, according to the true meaning thereof;
and the said commissioners shall also appoint a place
and clay, between the first and twentieth days of
May next, for the said assessors to appear and bring
in writing the several valuations of property in their
respective districts, in pursuance of this act.
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Property in
the city of
Baltimore.
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6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the property
within the city of. Baltimore shall be valued and re-
turned distinctly from that of Baltimore county.
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Precincts of
Baltimore.
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7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commis-
sioners of the tax of the county of Baltimore, shall
appoint two assessors to value all the property lying
in the precincts of the city of Baltimore, in the same,
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