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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Clerk to Coun-
ty Commis-

land, That the following sections be and they are hereby added

sioners.

to Article 6 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Caroline

County," new sub-title "Clerk to County Commissioners,"

and to be designated as Sections 50A and 506.

5oA. The County Commissioners of Caroline County shall,

To appoint
same every

between the first day pf March and the first day of June, be-

two years.

ginning with the year 1906, and every two years thereafter,

appoint a clerk to the County Commissioners of said county,

who shall hold his office for two years from the first day of

July next succeeding his appointment; and it shall be the

duty of the clerk to the County Commissioners in addition

to the duties now required of him, to assess all new and

unassessed property in said county, for which he shall receive

the sum of twenty-five cents for each person's property as-

sessed by him, and for this purpose he is clothed with all the

powers possessed by collectors of taxes under the provisions

of the Code of Public General Laws; and said clerk may

appoint one or more deputies, who shall be authorized to act

in his place, or for whose acts he shall be responsible and to

whom he may pay such compensation as he may deem proper,

to be deducted from his salary; and said clerk to the County

Salary.

Commissioners shall receive a salary of seven hundred dollars

per annum, and he shall receive no extra compensation for

any services rendered the county, except the sum of twenty-

five cents for each person's property assessed by him as here-

inbefore provided for.

5oB. It shall be the duty of said clerk, as soon as the an-

To give notice
of annual

nual levy is made, to give public notice thereof by advertise-

levy.

ment inserted in two newspapers printed and published in said

county; and the taxes so levied shall be entered in books as

the same has been done heretofore, and said books shall be

delivered to the County Treasurer not later than August 15

of the same year, and shall be due and payable on the first

day of September in which they are levied; it shall be the

further duty of the clerk to strike from the list of taxables

the names of all insolvents returned to him by the Treasurer

of said county and allowed by the County Commissioners as

such.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts

inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same

are hereby repealed.