PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 871

the escape of any such prisoner, he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon indictment and conviction of such offence
in the Circuit Court for Garrett County, be fined not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or be confined in the
county jail of the county, and be subject to the same penalty
of hard labor, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

SEC. 6. And be U enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 598.

ACT to incorporate the Talbot Trust & Deposit Company.
(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 599.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 81 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, to be designated
as section 17B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following section be added to Article 81 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Reve-
nue and Taxes," to be designated as section 17B.

SEC. 17B. Any person or persons, or corporation, claiming
to be aggrieved because of any assessment made by any officer
or officers of any municipal corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of Maryland and located therein, other than
Baltimore City, or because of the failure to reduce or rebate any
existing assessments by whomsoever made, may by petition
appeal to the Circuit Court of the county in which said prop-
erty is situated: and all directions set forth in section 17 of
this article relating to taking, prosecution and determination of
the appeal thereby authorized to the Baltimore City Court shall
be applicable, upon the taking of the said appeal, to the pro-
ceedings in said Circuit Court of the county, and said Circuit
Court shall have all the powers and discharge all the duties
which are required of the said Baltimore City Court in the said
section 17; and the said officer or officers of said municipal
corporation from which the appeal authorized by this section is
taken, and their clerks, surveyors or other agents or servants,
shall do all the things in connection with said appeal, which