PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 95

five cents on the hundred dollars worth of assessable property,
then and in that event the fund derived from said excess, over
and above a tax levy of thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars
worth of assessable property, shall only be applied by said
council in payment for lighting the streets of said town by
electricity. And all taxes so levied shall be a lien on any and
all property of the person or persons against whom they may
be levied. And any person may appeal from the valuation of
the said assessors to the council, which shall meet on the first
Monday in July, after said assessment, and remain in ses-
sion from day to day as long as may be reasonable, to hear
and to determine said appeals and shall give reasonable notice
of said meetings and shall increase or reduce said assessment as
they may deem just and the council shall, once a year,
before fixing and deciding upon the amount of taxes, licenses,
to be assessed for the ensuing year, cause to be made out a
detailed estimate exhibiting the items of liability and expenses
during said year, and shall cause the same to be published at
least three times, once a week, for three consecutive weeks, in
a newspaper published in Montgomery county. And after hear-
ing and considering objections thereto by the owners of said
property in said town, if any such shall be made, shall revise
said detailed estimate and fix and assess for the ensuing year.
Such rate of taxation, not exceeding fifty cents on every one
hundred dollars worth of property as they shall deem neces-
sary, together with other revenues of said town, to meet said
revised estimate of liability and expenditures. Said revised
detailed estimate, together with the rate of taxation, shall be
published twice in a newspaper published and printed in Mont-
gomery county, and the adoption of said revised detailed esti-
mate shall thereby be and become the appropriation of the
respective amounts for the respective purposes therein stated.
And the council shall not audit nor shall the clerk draw or
sign any check in payment of any claim unless an appropria-
tion therefor shall have been duly signed therefor by the
Mayor of said town. The council shall, annually, prepare and
publish not later than the first day of May of each year, a
parallel statement of the appropriations and the expenditures
under said appropriations of the funds of the town. The
council shall also cause to be made from time to time, during
the said three year periods, assessments of improvements made
and of other property not contained in the general assessment
list; and they shall make such other provisions as in their
judgment may be necessary to carry into full force and effect
the assessments herein provided for.