850 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

This sub-title is not intended to impose any limitation on the power
of local bodies to employ assessors.

1914, ch. 841, sec. 240.

241. The salary of the supervisors shall be paid by the several
Counties and shall be based on the aggregate value of property subject
to taxation under his supervision. In those Counties where the total
value of all property shall not exceed $5,000,000, he shall receive an
annual salary of $600. If the aggregate value shall be over $5,000,000
and less than $10,000,000, he shall receive $800.

If over $10,000,000 and less than $20,000,000—$1,000.

If over 20,000,000 and less than 30,000,000— 1,200.

If over 30,000,000 and less than 50,000,000— 1,500.

If over 50,000,000 and less than 75,000,000— 1,800.

If over 75,000,000 and less than 100,000,000— 2,000.

And if over $100,000,000 he shall receive $2,400.

The supervisor in Baltimore City shall be paid $2,400.

Such salary shall be payable monthly and the County Commissioners
of each County and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are
hereby directed to raise such sum annually as will pay said salaries,
and in case the expenditures for any County or Baltimore City have
been fully computed on May 29, 1914, then the County Commissioners
of said County or the proper officials in Baltimore City shall be required
to provide in the next levy for the payment of the salary from the date
of the supervisor taking office.

1914, ch. 841, sec. 241.

242. That State Tax Commission shall adopt a seal and shall keep
a full record of its proceedings, and have the power to make rules,
orders and directions as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the
objects of this sub-title. It shall have power also to provide a system
for hearings on petitions filed before it, and shall adopt such rules of
proceedings, manner of taking testimony and argument and such regu-
lations in regard to notices of assessment, hearings and appeals as it
may deem proper. The Commission, or any member of the Commis-
sion, shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses, who
shall be notified through the respective sheriffs' offices, or by any ap-
pointee of the State Tax Commission, and said Commission or any
member may require the production of books and papers before it or
him, and may examine witnesses or cause witnesses to be examined
under oath, which any of its members may administer, and in case of
the failure of any person or corporation to obey any order of the said
Commission, he, she or it shall be held liable to be punished as for con-
tempt of said Commission, as hereinafter provided. The Commission
may, by order, as occasion shall require, refer to one of its members the
duty of taking testimony in any matter pending before it and reporting
thereon to the Commission, but no determination shall be made therein