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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
court, or register of wills, shall be a commissioner of the
tax. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 191. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
of the tax
shall meet at the place where the county courts are usually held in
their respective counties, on the first Monday of February eighteen
hundred and thirteen, or as soon thereafter as they may have notice
of this act, and as often after as shall be necessary; and the
said commissioners at their said meeting shall appoint a clerk;
and whereas the several counties in this state are divided into
election districts, the said commissioners shall also appoint for
each of the said districts, one or more sensible and active person
or persons, inhabitants of the district, to be assessor or assessors
of the real and personal property in such district; and the said
commissioners shall enter in a book, to be kept for that purpose,
the name of the person or persons appointed assessor in each district,
and shall immediately after such choice appoint a place and
day, not exceeding ten days thereafter, of which five days notice
shall be given by some one of the commissioners to each assessor,
for the said assessors to appear before them, and at their appearance
the said commissioners shall openly read such parts of this
act, and the act to ascertain the value of the land in the several
counties of this state for the purpose of laying the public assessment,
passed at November session seventeen hundred and eighty-five*,
as relate to their duty, and shall advise them in what manner
to make their assessment and in what form to return their
certificates thereof, and how to perform the several duties required
of them by this act and the before mentioned act, according to the
true meaning thereof; and the said commissioners shall also appoint
a place and day, between the first and twentieth days of
May next, for the said assessors to appear and bring in writing
the several valuations of property in their respective districts, in
pursuance of this act. |
Meetings of commissioners
—assessors
—their duties.
Ch. 53. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the property within
the city of
Baltimore shall be valued and returned distinctly from that of
Baltimore county.
See 1817, ch. 142. |
Property in city
of Baltimore. |
7. BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners of
the tax of
the county of Baltimore, shall appoint two assessors to value all
the property lying in the precincts of the city of Baltimore, in the
same manner and by the same rules as the property in said county;
and the return or returns of such valuation shall be made to
the commissioners aforesaid, and not to the commissioners of the
city of Baltimore, any thing in the aforesaid act to ascertain the
value of the land in the several counties of this state, for the purpose
of laying the public assessment, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
In precincts of
Baltimore. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
in their
direction to the assessors by them to be appointed in virtue of this
act, shall be governed in all respects by the provisions and directions
of the act, entitled, An act to ascertain the value of the land
in the several counties of this state, for the purpose of laying the
public assessment, passed at November session seventeen hundred
and eighty-five †, and of this act; and the said commissioners are hereby |
List of alienations
and transfers to be
furnished by county
clerks.
† Ch. 53. |
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