846 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 20.

sessments made by him, and a book of accounts, arranged in,
alphabetical order, in which the person assessed shall be charged
with the particulars assessed to him.

49. The commissioners, upon receiving the return of the as-
sessors, shall appoint at least three separate days for hearing
and deciding the complaints and appeals of persons aggrieved by
the assessment, and give notice thereof by advertisement set up
at the court-house door and market house for at least ten days
previous thereto; and the commissioners, upon an appeal, may
examine the appellant or any other person on oath touching the
particulars and value of the property alleged to be over valued,
and may, upon such examination, abate or increase the valuation
and alter the return of the assessor accordingly.

50. The commissioners, whenever a town tax shall be levied,
shall appoint a collector of said tax, who, before he acts as such,
shall give bond to the said commissioners, with two good securi-
ties approved by them in double the sum to be collected, with
condition "that if the above bound -- do and shall well and'
faithfully execute the office of collector of the taxes imposed by
the commissioners on the owners of property in the town of
Easton, and perform the several duties required of him by law
and the ordinances, orders and directions of the said commis-
sioners, and account with the said commissioners for the amount
of the said assessment, and all other sums of money that may be
collected by him under the orders of said commissioners, and
pay over the same to the said commissioners or their order
within three months from his receipt of the assessment list, then
the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force
and virtue in law."

51. The commissioners shall deliver to the collector an alpha-
betical list of all the persons chargeable with taxes according to
the return of the assessor, and annex thereto a warrant to the
collector to collect the same, and the collector, within ten days
after receiving the said list, shall furnish to every person so
chargeable an account of his tax, and unless the same be paid to
the collector within thirty days after such account shall be deli-
vered, the collector may seize and sell the property assessed, or
if the same be goods and chattels and cannot be found or conve-
niently sold, may seize.and sell any other of the goods and chat-
tels, lands or tenements of the person 80 refusing or neglei'li.iig
to pay; and the collector shall account with the commissioners