ASSESSMENT.

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about the first day of February, a statement of the condition of
the several schools in said county, made out from the above
mentioned reports, and the amount of money received and
expended by them for the year on account of said schools.

SHERIFFS.
AN ACT to increase the allowance to Sheriffs for keeping Prisoners in
Gaol, and finding them Victuals, in the several Counties therein men-
tioned.— 1816, ch. 178.
See 'Calvert County,' title 'Prisoners/ ante page 1743.

WITNESSES,
See title 'Jurors,' ante page 2142.

SOMERSET COUNTY.

BOUNDARIES.— 1801, ch. 6; 1803, ch. 61.

ASSESSMENT.
AN ACT for the Re-assessment and Re-valuation of the Real and Personal
Property in Somerset County. — 1829, ch. 106.

Who shall
annually re-
port to the
legislature.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all the [real and personal property in Somerset county,
shall be valued agreeably to the directions of this act, and shall
be chargeable according to such valuation with the public as-
sessment for said county, except such description of property

Property to
be assessed
and made
chargeable.

as is excepted out of the public valuation by the first section
of the act of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen
hundred and twelve, chapter one hundred and ninety-one, and
by the sixth section of this act.
See 1812, ch. 191, ante page 1631.

Exceptions.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the tax
for Somerset county, shall meet at the town of Princess Anne,
as soon after the passage of this act and notice thereof, as may
be convenient, and when so met, shall appoint three sensible
and active inhabitants of said county to be assessors of the real
and personal property in said county, and shall cause such ap-
pointment to be noted in a book kept for that purpose, or in
their book of proceedings, and shall immediately after such
appointments, appoint a place and day not exceeding ten days
thereafter, of which five days notice shall be given by the said
commissioners or their clerk, for the said assessors to be and

Commis-
sioners to
appoint
assessors.

appear before them, and upon their appearance, the commis-
sioners shall openly read such parts of this act and the act of
eighteen hundred and twelve, chapter ninety-one* as relate to

Notify and
instruct
them.
(*Ch. 191.)