REVENUE AND TAXES. 2689

An. Code, sec. 250. 1916, ch. 629, sec. 250.

265. The Board of County Commissioners of the several Counties of
the State shall provide by levy an amount sufficient to pay for the assessment
of property in their respective Counties upon the order of the State Tax
Commission.

An. Code, sec. 251. 1916, ch. 629, sec. 251.

266. In the event that any of the several Boards of County Commis-
sioners of the State of Maryland neglect or refuse to include in the levy
succeeding the date of notification from the State Tax Commission of the
amount necessary to reassess property in the particular County, the amount
of which is in the preceding Section provided for, or in the event any of
the several Boards of County Commissioners shall neglect or fail to follow
the instructions of the State Tax Commission, either as to the method or
plan of assessment, or failure to appoint County assessors as hereinbefore
provided, then in that event, the State Tax Commission shall institute
mandamus proceedings against any such Board of County Commissioners
of any County so refusing and a mandamus shall issue compelling any
such Board to perform the duties herein provided.

An. Code, sec. 252. 1916, ch. 629, sec. 252.

267. Each County Commissioner of a County having three Com-
missioners shall receive five dollars per day for actual services rendered in
connection with the reassessment of property in their County, and the
County Commissioners of Counties having more than three Commissioners
shall each receive three dollars per day for actual services rendered in the
assessment of property in their County, but the State Tax Commission is
given the authority to decide how much time is necessary to do this work,
and if the County Commissioners of any County have not completed their
work within that time, then in that event the necessary time to complete
it must be done without compensation. The County Commissioners of the
several Counties in connection with the reassessment of the property in
their respective County shall have the right to appoint a clerk in addition
to the regular clerk of the Board, who shall receive for each day of actual
service as such clerk the sum of three dollars per day. The counsel to the
County Commissioners in their respective County shall be counsel to the
said Commissioners in regard to the reassessment of property in their
respective County, and shall be entitled to a fair and reasonable compensa-
tion for services rendered to said County Commissioners in addition to the
salary as counsel to the said County Commissioners; all of which compen-
sation for the County assessors, County Commissioners acting in regard
to the reassessment of property in their respective County, their clerk and
counsel, shall be paid by the Counties in which such duties are respectively
performed, and the accounts for these services rendered, shall be approved
by the County Commissioners for such County before the same are paid.