1402 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 700]

from the occupants of the buildings, and the same shall be a
lien on said property and collected as other taxes are collected,
and the council may pass suitable ordinances to enable the
proper officers to collect and remove all filth from the town
and provide for the disposal thereof. A. special tax may be
imposed to carry out the provisions of this section, not exceed-
ing the sum of fifty cents per month on any one house, to be
paid by the occupant or owner thereof, as aforesaid.

1902, ch. 7, sec. 15.

258. On or before the first day of June in each year the
council shall cause an assessment to be made on all the real
and personal property within said town or corporate limits
thereof, by an assessor or assessors to be appointed and paid
by them, which assessments shall not exceed the assessment of
the same for county purposes, and the council shall immediately
thereupon levy a tax thereon not exceeding fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars' worth of assessable property in any one year.
Any person may appeal from the valuation of the assessor or
assessors to the council, which shall meet on the first Monday
in July after said assessment and remain in session from day
to day as long as may be reasonable, to hear and determine
said appeals, and shall give reasonable notice of said meetings,
and shall increase or abate said assessment as they may deem
just; and the council shall once a year, before fixing and decid-
ing upon the amount of taxes and licenses to be assessed for the
ensuing year, cause to be made out a detailed estimate, exhibit-
ing the various items of liability and expenditure, including the
requisite amount for all expenses during said year, and shall
cause the same to be published for at least three times once a
week, in the official journal of the town, and after hearing and
considering objections thereto by the citizens, if any, shall
revise said detailed estimate and fix and assess for the ensuing
year such rate of taxation not exceeding fifty cents on every
hundred dollars as they shall deem necessary, together with
other revenues of the town, to meet said revised estimate of
liabilities and expenditures. Said revised detail estimate,
together with the new rate of taxation, shall be published twice
in the official journal of the town, and the adoption of said
revised detail estimate shall thereby be and become the appro-
priation of the respective amounts for the respective purposes
therein stated, and the council shall not andit, nor shall the
clerk draw or sign any check in payment of any claim unless an
appropriation therefor shall have been duly made in accordance
with this act. The council shall annually prepare and publish
not later than the first day of May a parallel statement of the