764 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 545]

qualifying by taking the prescribed oath, proceed to elect one
of the number of the council as president; said council shall
meet thereafter on the second Monday of each month for the
transaction of the regular business of the town, but it may
meet oftener if required; at all meetings of the council, four
members present and voting shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, and a majority vote of all the members
elected shall be necessary for the passage of any ordinance,
law or regulation; during the term of said Mayor or Council-
men, if any of them should die, resign or remove from the
town or be otherwise disqualified, an election to fill the vacancy,
on ten days' notice thereof being given by the Mayor or
council shall be held, at which all persons qualified as hereto-
fore described, shall be entitled to vote. The Common Council
shall be the judge of the qualifications of its own members
and may provide by ordinance for contested elections.

SEC. 15. There shall be annually appointed by the Mayor
and Common Council before the first Monday in July in
each year, three assessors who shall possess the qualifications
required of the Mayor, to constitute a board of assessors, who
shall serve from said first Monday in July until the first
Monday in July of the year following, the duty of which
board as to the board appointed in the year 1912 and in every
fifth year thereafter it shall be after each assessor has taken an
oath faithfully, honestly and impartially to perform 'their
duties, as assessors to assess, before the annual levy of taxes
upon the same and within such time as the Mayor and Council
shall fix, each and every piece of land separately with the
improvements thereon, within said town at a fair cash value at
public sale, as near as they may be able to determine the
same, and they shall set out in said assessment in the case
of land, each piece of land and the improvements thereon sepa-
rately with the assessed value thereof and the name of the
owner thereof where the name can be obtained, and in case
of personal property, the assessed value in the name of the
owner thereof; and said assessors shall receive for their ser-
vices in this behalf, such reasonable compensation as may be
fixed by the Mayor and Common Council before assessment
by law. Said board of assessors appointed as hereinbefore pro-
vided, for years other than the year 1912 and each fifth year
thereafter as aforesaid, shall make no general assessment or
re-assessment of all property, but merely of property or
improvements not heretofore assessed. Immediately upon the
completion of said assessment, the board of assessors shall give
notice of the fact to the Mayor, the Mayor in turn shall give a