| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 191. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
authorised to call on the clerks of their counties to deliver them a
list of alienations from the first day of June eighteen hundred and
twelve, to the first meeting of the said commissioners in May next,
and so from time to time as occasion may require, and also call on
the clerks of their several counties for a list of all transfers of
personal
property which shall be recorded in their respective offices,
and which shall take place after the assessment of property in
virtue of this act, from time to time as occasion may require. |
Default of assessors
—penalty. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person appointed
an assessor
in this act, and who shall accept of his said appointment,
shall neglect to return to the commissioners certificates for
such valuation of the real and personal property in his district,
agreeably to this act, and the instructions given to him, he shall
for every such neglect, forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred
dollars; and if any person appointed an assessor shall not appear
at the time, or shall appear and refuse to serve, the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, shall appoint by warrant, under
their hands, some other person qualified as aforesaid, as an assessor,
in the room of the person so making default or refusing to
sever; and if such person shall also make default or refuse to act,
they may proceed to a new appointment in like manner, and as
often as necessary, until the vacancy be supplied; and if any assessor
shall die, or be rendered incapable to act, before he shall have
fully completed his valuation, the said commissioners shall, by
warrant under their hands, nominate some person qualified as
aforesaid, to be assessor to act; and the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall immediately thereafter send such warrant to the
person so nominated assessor. |
Commissioners for
city of Baltimore. |
10. BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed
for the city of Baltimore, or the major part of them, shall meet at
some convenient place in the said city, to be appointed by them at
the several and respective times herein mentioned and prescribed
for the meetings of the commissioners of the several counties; and
the said commissioners for the city of Baltimore, or a major part
of them, shall then and there execute the like powers and duties
committed to, and required of the commissioners of the several
counties by this act, and shall be liable to the same penalties for
omissions or neglect of duty as are imposed by this act on the commissioners
of the several counties.
See 1817, ch. 142. |
| Oath of assessors. |
11. BE IT ENACTED, That every assessor shall,
before he
takes upon himself the execution of his office, take the following
oath or affirmation, (as the case may be,) to wit: " I, A. B. do
swear, or affirm, that I will well and truly execute the duty of an
assessor, and will faithfully, justly and impartially, value all real
and personal property which I shall be appointed to value agreeably
to the directions of the commissioners, and of the act for the
valuation of real and personal property in the several counties of
this state, according to the best of my skill and knowledge; and
therein I will spare no person for favour or affection, or any person
grieve for hatred, malice or ill-will;" which oath or affirmation
any of the commissioners of the tax, or any justice of the peace
may administer. |
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