CECIL COUNTY. 2015

town, to regulate the moving of rafts, arks and boats, and to prevent all
nuisances and obstructions from being placed in the waters of the North
East River in front of said town.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 208. 1870, ch 100. 1892, ch. 149, sec. 209.

312. The owners and proprietors of lots binding on and entitled to the
privileges of the water in said town, subject to the rules, regulations and
ordinances of the Commissioners, may wharf out, extend and improve
the whole front of the several lots, and for such distance as from time
to time they may think proper, and shall be entitled exclusively to such
emoluments arising from the wharfage thereof as may be fixed upon by
the Commissioners.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 210. 1870, ch. 100. 1892. ch. 149, sec. 210.
1906, ch. 751, sec. 210.

313. The said President and Commissioners shall have power to levy
and collect taxes in the town not less than twenty-five cents on the hun-
dred dollars nor more than forty cents on the hundred dollars in any one
year on the assessable property of the town, and said President and Com-
missioners shall have power to pass ordinances regulating the time and
manner of payment of said taxes, and to provide for an early payment of
the same by making provision for the allowance of such discount as may
be necessary thereto; and the said President and Town Commissioners
are hereby authorized and empowered to make a new assessment of all
the property, real and personal, in said town, in the year 1906, and once
in every ten years, or oftener, if they shall think proper; and the Presi-
dent and Commissioners of said town shall appoint three assessors to make
said assessment, and said assessors shall receive as compensation therefor
the sum of ten dollars apiece, making in all thirty dollars for their serv-
ices, to be paid ont of the taxes of said town; and said assessors shall,
under oath, assess and value property in the town, in the same manner,
and with like authority, as county assessors; and the town bailiff shall,
with the authority given in this section, annually assess and add to the
assessable property of said town such new or missed property or buildings
as may be brought into or erected therein; provided, that said assess-
ments shall not include real or personal property situated beyond the
boundaries of the town, nor personal property only constructively within
the town, though owned by persons residing in it; and provided, further,
that in assessing any of the lands within the town which may be occupied
and used as farms, or may be a part or parts of farms, such land shall
be valued and assessed as lots of ten acres of ground with the building
and improvements thereon, and shall not be assessed in value by the
number of acres therein.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 211. 1870. ch. 100.

314. If any owner of property assessed within the town shall feel
aggrieved by the assessment so made, he may appeal to the President