702 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 15.

ordinances, and commit the offender to the county jail until the
same be satisfied, with costs.

67*. The commissioners may, as often as deemed advisable,
cause an assessment to be made of all real and personal property
within the corporate limits, by a person to be appointed and paid
by them, and which assessment shall not exceed the assessment
of the same property for county purposes; and the com-
missioners may levy a tax thereon, not exceeding in any one
year twenty cents in the hundred dollars' worth of assessable
property.

68*. Any person may appeal from the valuation made by the
assessor to the commissioners, who shall meet on the first
Monday in June in each year after any such assessment, and/
remain in session as long as may be reasonable, to hear and
determine such appeals, and shall give reasonable notice of such
meeting, and may abate or increase the assessment as may seem
just.

69*. Whenever the commissioners shall levy a tax, they shall
cause to be made out an alphabetical list of the persons charged
therewith, and shall cause to be affixed thereto the respective
sums to be collected from each person, and a warrant to the
bailiff to collect the same.

70*. The bailiff shall, within ten days after the receipt of such
list and warrant, render to each person named, therein an
account of the tax; and if he cannot render to any person such
account by reason of his non-residence or otherwise, he shall
publish such account in some newspaper in said town, at the
expense of the tax payer, and may, unless the same be paid
within thirty days after the delivery or publication of such
account, collect the same, with all costs, by distress and sale of
the real and personal property of the delinquent at public
auction, after giving at least ten days' public notice of such sale
in some newspaper published in said town.

71*. The president of the commissioners shall execute and
deliver to the purchaser a deed of the property so sold, and the
said deed shall convey to the purchaser the said property, and
shaU be presumptive evidence that all the requirements of law
have been complied with in making such sale and deed.