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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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or persons or body corporate entitled thereto, any and all
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money coming into his possession as Treasurer, which bond
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shall be approved by the County Commissioners of Prince
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George's County, or a majority of them, and thereafter be
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recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
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said county, and upon default of the Treasurer-elect to exe-
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cute such bond within thirty days after his election, and the
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same has been declared by the proper officer, the Governor
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of the State shall appoint another in his place, and so on until
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a Treasurer has been duly qualified.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
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from the date of its passage.
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Approved March 3, 1904.
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CHAPTER 33.
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AN ACT to repeal Section 93 (erroneously described as Sec-
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tion 23) of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws,
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title "Cecil County, " sub-title "Chesapeake City, " as enacted
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by the Act of Assembly of 1876, Chapter 140, Section 45,
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and to re-enact the same with amendments.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
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land, That Section 93 (erroneously described as Section 23)
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of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Cecil
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County, " sub-title "Chesapeake City, " as enacted by Section
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45, Chapter 140 of the Acts of 1876, is hereby repealed and
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re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:
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93. They shall have power to levy and collect taxes in the
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Levying and
collection of
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town not exceeding in any one year forty cents on the hun-
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town taxes.
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dred dollars on the assessable property of the town. They
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shall, once in every five years, or oftener if they think proper,
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appoint an assessor, who shall, under oath, value and assess
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the property in the town on the same manner and with like
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authority as county assessor proceeds to assess in the county,
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provided that in assessing any of the lands within the limits
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of the town which may be occupied and used as farms, or may
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be a part or parts of farms, such lands shall be valued and as-
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sessed by the number of acres therein. If any owner of
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property assessed in the town shall feel aggrieved by the assess-
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ment made by said assessor he may appeal to the President
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and Commissioners who may make such deduction therein as
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to them may seem just and reasonable.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
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from the date of its passage.
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Approved March 3, 1904.
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