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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or persons or body corporate entitled thereto, any and all

money coming into his possession as Treasurer, which bond

shall be approved by the County Commissioners of Prince

George's County, or a majority of them, and thereafter be

recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for

said county, and upon default of the Treasurer-elect to exe-

cute such bond within thirty days after his election, and the

same has been declared by the proper officer, the Governor

of the State shall appoint another in his place, and so on until

a Treasurer has been duly qualified.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1904.

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT to repeal Section 93 (erroneously described as Sec-

tion 23) of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws,

title "Cecil County, " sub-title "Chesapeake City, " as enacted

by the Act of Assembly of 1876, Chapter 140, Section 45,

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

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

land, That Section 93 (erroneously described as Section 23)

of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Cecil

County, " sub-title "Chesapeake City, " as enacted by Section

45, Chapter 140 of the Acts of 1876, is hereby repealed and

re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

93. They shall have power to levy and collect taxes in the

Levying and
collection of

town not exceeding in any one year forty cents on the hun-

town taxes.

dred dollars on the assessable property of the town. They

shall, once in every five years, or oftener if they think proper,

appoint an assessor, who shall, under oath, value and assess

the property in the town on the same manner and with like

authority as county assessor proceeds to assess in the county,

provided that in assessing any of the lands within the limits

of the town which may be occupied and used as farms, or may

be a part or parts of farms, such lands shall be valued and as-

sessed by the number of acres therein. If any owner of

property assessed in the town shall feel aggrieved by the assess-

ment made by said assessor he may appeal to the President

and Commissioners who may make such deduction therein as

to them may seem just and reasonable.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1904.