ASSESSMENT.

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
appointed assessor in each district, and shall immediately after
such choice appoint a place and day, not exceeding ten days
thereafter, of which five days notice shall be given by some
one of the commissioners to each assessor, for the said assessors
to appear before 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 several counties of this
state for the purpose of laying the public assessment, passed at

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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 certi-
cates 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 day, 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.
Modified as to Baltimore County, by 1832, ch. 130, sec. 2, 3, 4 and 5.
SEC. 6. Merged in 1832, ch. 130, sec. 6.
SEC. 7. See preceding note.

* Ch. 53.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, in
their direction to the assessors by them to be appointed in
virtue of this act, shall be governed in all respects by the pro-
visions and directions of the act, entitled, an act to ascertain the
value of the land in the several counties of this state, for the
purpose of laying the public assessment, passed at November

List of
alienations
and trans-
fers to be
furnished
by county
clerks.

session, seventeen hundred and eighty-five,! and of this act;
and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to call on
the clerks of their counties to deliver them a list of alienations
from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, to the
first meeting of the said commissioners in May next, and so
from time to time as occasion may require, and also call on the
clerks of their several counties for a list of all transfers of per-
sonal property which shall be recorded in their respective offices,
and which shall take place after the assessment of property in
virtue of this act, from time to time as occasion may require.

Ch. 53.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That if any person appointed an
assessor in this act, and who shall accept of his said appoint-
ment, shall neglect to return to the commissioners certificates
for such valuation of the real and personal property in his dis-
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Default of
assessors }
penalty.