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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the assessment books of said town, and all property brought
into said town from time to time and becoming liable to
taxation.

APPEALS FROM ASSESSMENTS.

Appeal from

assessments.

Sec. 182A. Any person may appeal from the valuation made
by said assessors, or from any assessment now in force, to
said Town Council, and said Town Council shall arrange by
ordinance for the hearing of such appeals and fix a time
therefor, and may hear the same by a committee of them-
selves or otherwise, and shall give notice of the time and place
fixed for hearing such appeals and making transfers and
abatements by posters displayed at least ten days in advance
of such sitting in not less than five of the most public places
in the town, and upon such appeal said Town Council or its
committee may examine the party appealing under oath, and
shall reassess the property of such appellant as they may deem
just, but no appeal shall be heard except during the time so
fixed by such ordinance.

Power to levy
taxes.
Create sinking
fund.

Sec. 183. The Mayor and Common Council shall have full
power and authority, and are required to levy all necessary
taxes upon the property within the taxable limits of the cor-
poration, for the payment of the interest on the bonds author-
ized to be issued, under the Act of eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, Chapter twenty-nine, as well as for the payment
of the said bonds at maturity, and shall create a sinking fund
for that purpose and levy the necessary taxes therefor not
exceeding the provisions of this sub-title of this Article.

May issue
additional
bonds.

Sec. 184, The Mayor and Common Council are authorized
to issue additional bonds not to exceed twenty-nine hundred
dollars in amount, the proceeds thereof to be applied to the
payment of such fire-engine, hook-and-ladder-truck and appli-
ances and apparatus that may have been or may be purchased
for the use of said town, as far as may be necessary therefor,
and the proceeds of the balance of said bonds to be applied to
such uses of said town as the said Mayor and Common Council
may deem right, and the said bonds shall bear interest not
exceeding six per centum per annum, payable annually, and
shall be payable twenty years from date, or earlier, at the
pleasure of said Mayor and Common Council, and a tax shall
be levied on said property to pay the interest thereon, and
create a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds at maturity ;
said bonds shall be issued in sums not exceeding five hundred
dollars each, with coupons attached, and shall be under the cor-
porate seal of said town and signed by the Mayor, and coun-
tersigned by the clerk of said Mayor and Common Council.