ASSESSMENT,

(as the case may be,) to wit : 'I, A. B. do swear, (or affirm,) that I
will well and truly execute the duties imposed on me by an act,
entitled, an act for the valuation of real and personal property
within the several counties of this state, and will justly and im-
partially value all personal property which I shall be authorized
to value, agreeably to the directions of said act, according to the
best of my skill and knowledge, and therein I will spare no
person for favour or affection, or any person aggrieve for hatred,
malice or ill will ;' which oath or affirmation any of the justices
of the peace or commissioners of the tax may administer.
Modified as to Baltimore county, by 1832, ch. 130, sec. 5.

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SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That there shall be allowed to
each collector for the performance of the duties by this act im-
posed on him, such a sum as the commissioners of the tax in
their discretion shall think reasonable and proper, according to
the duty which he shall actually perform, which sums shall be
respectively laid by the justices of the levy courts of the several
counties of this state, and levied and collected in the same
manner and at the same time that other county charges are
laid, levied and collected ; and any person whose property shall
be valued by a collector or deputy collector as aforesaid, shall
have the same right to appeal that is granted to other persons
assessed under this act.

Their com-
pensation.

SEC. 32. And be it enacted, That the registers of the land
offices on the western and eastern shores respectively, shall an-
nually between the first day of March and the first day of May,
make out for the commissioners of the tax, for the county or
counties where such lands may be, a list of all certificates which
have become ready for patent, expressing the name of the land,
the quantity it contains, and the person who is entitled to pa-
tent ; and in case of resurvey, shall express the name of the
original tracts and quantity of vacancy added.

Registers id
make out
lists of cer-
tificates be-
coming
ready for
patent

SEC. 33. And be it enacted, That the register of the land
office for the western shore shall enclose and deliver the list
made out as aforesaid, directed to the commissioners of the tax
for the respective counties, endorsed 'on public service,' to the
sheriff of Anne Aruudel county, to be by him transmitted as
public letters ; and the register of the eastern shore land office
shall enclose and deliver the list made out as aforesaid endorsed,
in like manner, to the sheriff of Talbot county, who shall
transmit the same as public letters to the respective counties.

To be sent
to sheriffs.

SEC. 34 And be it enacted, That the clerks of the court of
appeals of the western and eastern shores respectively, shall be,
and they are hereby directed and required, on or before the first
day of May next, to make out from the records of deeds en-
rolled at length among the records of their respective courts,
lists of the alienations of all land thereby granted, bargained or
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Clerks to
make oat
Hats of
alienations
of lands Inc.