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on conviction shall be fined not exceeding one hun-
dred dollars.
SEC. 9. In all cases where discoveries of assessable
property are made by the collectors, county commis-	Discoveries
eioners or Appeal Tax Court of Baltimore city, either
from the returns of clerks, registers or assessors, or
in any other way, the said county commissioners or
Appeal Tax Court shall assess the same, and add the
same to the amount on which taxes are to be levied.
SEC. 10. The Commissioner of the Land Office	Make out list
shall annually, between the first day of January and	of certificate
the first day of March, make out and transmit through
mail to the county commissioners, or to the Mayor
of the City of Baltimore, to be laid before the Appeal
Tax Court, a list of all certificates which have be-
come ready for patent, expressing the name of the
land, the quantity it contained, and the person who
is entitled to patent, and in case of re-survey when
vacancy has been added, the names of the original
tracts and the quantity of vacancy added.
SEC. 11. No person shall be chargeable with the	Not chargeable
assessment of property which he may have aliened, but the same shall be chargeable to the alienee, and
the county commissioners and Appeal Tax Court
shall from time to time correct the account of any
person who may have parted with the possession of
any property, and the same so taken off, shall be
charged to the person who may have acquired pos-
session of the property, unless the same shall have
been removed from the county or city.
SEC. 12. The county commissioners and Appeal
Tax Court, at their annual meeting for noting trans-	Alter and cor- rect.
fers and hearing appeals, are directed to alter and
correct the account of any person who may have
disposed of or acquired any property since the last
assessment, or whose property or any part thereof
may have been omitted, if the report of such dispo-
sition, acquisition or omission, be supplied by satis-
factory evidence, and if real estate or other property
shall from any cause have increased largely in value
since the last assessment, the county commissioners
or Appeal Tax Court shall correct and alter the as-
sessment of the same, so as to conform to its present
value.