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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Section 16 of Chapter 78 of

the Acts of the General Assembly of 1898, entitled ''An

Act to incorporate the town of Kensington, in Montgom-

ery County, Maryland."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repealing and

re enacting

land, That Section 16 of the Acts of the General Assembly

an Act of in-

of Maryland of the Session of 1898. entitled "An Act to re-

corporation.

peal and re-enact, with amendments. Chapter 621 of the Acts

of the General Assembly of Maryland of the year 1894, en-

titled 'An Act to incorporate the town of Kensington, in

Montgomery County, Maryland,' " be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

1 6. On or before the first clay of June, 1904, and each third

year thereafter, the Council shall appoint three assessors, free-

holders of said town, who shall, under the direction of the said

Council, make an assessment of all the property, real, personal

and mixed, in said town, at a fair cash value at public sale,

as near as they may be able to determine the same, and the

Council shall immediately thereupon levy a tax thereon not

exceeding thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars' worth of

assessable property in any one year, and all taxes so levied

shall be a lien on any and all property of the person or per-

sons against whom they may be levied, and any person may

appeal from the valuation of the said assessors to the Council,

which shall meet on the first Monday in July after said assess-

To hear and

ment and remain in session from day to day as long as may

determine ap

be reasonable, to hear and determine said appeals. And

peals on as

sessments.

"shall give reasonable notice of said meetings, and shall in-

crease or reduce said assessment as they may deem just; and

the Council shall once a year, before fixing and deciding upon

the amount of taxes and licenses to be assessed for the ensuing

year. cause to be made out a detailed estimate exhibiting the

items of liability and expenses during said year, and shall

cause the same to be published at least three times once a

week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published

in Montgomery Counts , and after hearing and considering

objections thereto bv the owners of said property in said

town, if any such shall be made, shall revise said detailed

estimate and fix and assess for the ensuing year such rate

of taxation, not exceeding thirty-five cents on every hun-

dred dollars' worth of property, as they shall deem neces-

sary, together with other revenues of the town, to meet said