1868.] OF THE SENATE. 215

Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws .of Frederick
City, relating to the powers and duties of the Mayor, Alder-
men and Common Council of Frederick City, to follow sec-
tion 161.

With the following amendments :

Strike out from line 19 to 26 inclusive, of section 166, and
substitute for 167 the following :

SECTION 168. And be it enacted, That the Mayor, Alder-
men, and Common Council of Frederick shall have power at
such time or times as they may think proper, to appoint com-
missioners or assessors to revise, amend, correct, alter and
change the assessment of the property of the citizens of said
municipal corporation, and to add to, or reduce the valuation
of the property, real or personal, of said citizens, or any por-
tion thereof, and thereupon the taxes hereinbefore authorized
shall be levied on such new, revised or changed valuation.
And be it further provided, that a right of appeal from the
assessment made as aforesaid by the said Tax Commissioners
shall be had to the Mayor and the President of the Board of
Aldermen, and the President of the Board of Common Coun-
cil, or either two of them, whose duty it shall be, under such
terms as may be prescribed by the corporate authorities afore-
said, to examine into the merits or demerits of such appeal,
and whose decision in the premises shall be final, and the
assessment so corrected and amended shall be applicable to
all taxes authorized under the authority of the corporation of
Frederick aforesaid.

SEC. 169. And be it enacted, That the said Mayor, Alder-
men and Common Council, be and they are hereby author-
ized and empowered to levy and collect all necessary taxes
on the real and personal property within the taxable limits
of said corporation, as are now assessed and taxed within
said limits, for county and State purposes, under the recent
assessment made in pursuance of the Act of 1866, chapter
157, and the supplement thereto, passed at the January ses-
sion, 18667, chapter 341, or upon any assessment hereafter
made in pursuance of law, of the real and personal property
within, the taxable limits of said corporation, to pay all ex-
penses and debts of said corporation, and all obligations
incurred by said corporation, in pursuance of the power
vested by the charter, or any supplement thereto.

Which were read and adopted,
And the hill read a second time.

Mr. Maddox, from a select committee reported Senate bill
entitled an Act to establish Physicians' lien.

Which was read the first time.