JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

be employed, and he shall be allowed such reasonable
expenses as the court may be deemed proper and right; he
shall be paid by the County Commissioners in like manner,
as the members of the grand jury are paid upon certificates
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, when duly appointed by
one of the judges of said court; provided, however, that the
amount of compensation and expenses of said stenographic
clerk shall not exceed the annual sum of three hundred
dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 162.
AN ACT to repeal Section one hundred and fifty-two of
Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Wicomico County," sub-title "Salisbury," and to re-
enact the same with amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section one hundred and fifty-two of Article 23 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico
County," sub-title "Salisbury," be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

Salisbury.

152. All property within the corporate limits of Salisbury
subject to taxation for county purposes shall be taxed for
municipal purposes, and the Council at their first meeting, in
July, nineteen hundred, and every five years thereafter or
oftener, shall appoint three citizens noted for their good
judgment in the fair valuation of property as assessors, who,
after subscribing to an oath before the police justices to per-
form the duties imposed upon them without fear, favor,
partiality or prejudice, shall proceed to value the real estate
and improvements thereon, and all property liable to assess-
ment and taxation under the laws of the State for county pur-
poses within the corporate limits of Salisbury at a fair and
just market valuation, and return the same under their hands
to the Mayor and Council within thirty days, unless their time
be extended, and if any person shall feel aggrieved at the
valuation and assessment of his property by said assessors, he
may at any time within two weeks from the return of the
said assessment appeal from such valuation to the Council,

Property
assessed for
municipal
and county
purposes.