EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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or sums due or owing to said town for taxes or otherwise by

the holder of said claim, and no assignment of such claim to

avoid such deduction shall be valid.

2oD. The treasurer of the town of Aberdeen shall in-.

form himself by all lawful means of all lawful property, stock

Treasurer's
duties and

or investments in said town liable to taxation and not included

fees.

in the list of assessments, and of all new buildings and im-

provements and of all property created or acquired since the

last revised assessment; and he shall value the same at the full

cash value thereof and shall make return thereof to the Town

Commissioners, and for the purpose of this section the said

treasurer shall be clothed with the power of general assessor

of said town, and shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents for

each assessment made by him of new or missed property, and

his valuation shall be subject to revision and correction by

the said Town Commissioners, whose decision shall be final.

Before any assessment made as aforesaid shall become valid,

five days' notice thereof in writing shall be given to the owner

Written no-

of the property to be assessed, and if such owner be not found

tice to be

within the limits of said town, then the same shall be given

given.

to the person in possession of the property to be assessed, or

in whose custody the same may be ; or if it be land and no

one is in apparent occupancy thereof, then such notice shall

be posted upon such land.

20E. It shall be the duty of the said treasurer as soon as the

annual levy is made and placed in his hands to give notice there-

Annual levy.

of by advertisement inserted in one newspaper published in

said town, if one is published there, but if not, then in some

newspaper published in Harford County for two successive

weeks, stating the time from which said taxes bear interest

and the place at which they are to be paid, and the days upon

which he will be present for the purpose of collecting the same,

and warning all taxpayers of their liability to be published as

delinquent, and to have their property sold unless the taxes

with which they are charged be settled within the time re-

quired by law.

2oF. It shall be the duty of the said treasurer to attend in

person or by deputy at the office of said Town Commissioners,

or such other place as said Town Commissioners shall desig-

Designating

nate in said town, at least one day in each week between the

day to col-
lect taxes.

time said taxes are placed in his hands for collection and the

first day of October of the current year to collect and receive

such taxes.