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duty of the clerk to the County Commissioners to mail to the postoffice
addresses of each person, as shown by said returns, a written notice warn-
ing such person of the intention of the County Commissioners after ten
days from the date of such notice to assess to such person said property
appearing by said return to belong to such person, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or before the expiration of ten days from
date of such notice; and in the event that no good cause to the contrary
be shown within the time limited by such notice to the County Commis-
sioners shall proceed to assess such property to the persons appearing by
said returns to be the owners thereof at the valuation placed thereon by
such assessors; and nothing in this section shall be constructed* to inter-
fere with or affect the right, power and duties of the County Commis-
sioners under and by virtue of the General Laws of the State in relation
to such new, or other assessments of property.

1910, ch. 762, sec. 121B (p. 787). 1914, ch. 834, sec. 121B.

193. The treasurer shall issue when requested, and upon payment of
a fee of fifty cents, a certified statement over his signature of all taxes
assessed since the first day of January, 1915, that may be due and unpaid
at the time of making said certificate, and are a lien upon any certain
real estate located in Dorchester County, and of any tax sale affecting
said piece of property since that date, and said certificate shall be a bar
to the collection or recovery from any purchaser of real estate after the
issue of said certificate of any tax or assessment omitted therefrom and
which may be a lien upon the real estate mentioned therein, but said
certificate shall not affect the liability therefor or the person who owned
the real estate at the time such tax was levied or at any time after such
levy, and before the issue of said certificate^ and said treasurer shall be
responsible to said county for any loss of taxes that may arise from error
in said certificate.

1910, ch. 762, sec. 121C (p. 787). 1914, ch. 834, sec. 121C. 1920, ch. 728, sec. 121C.

1929, ch. 391.

194. The treasurer shall receive as compensation for his services as
treasurer and collector of Dorchester County an annual salary of twenty-
seven hundred ($2,700.00) dollars, which shall be paid in equal monthly
installments. And the said salary shall be his sole compensation, and

all fees of every kind and description arising from the sale of property
for taxes or from any other sources shall not be retained by the treasurer,
but shall be paid by him to the County Commissioners and a separate
account kept thereof, and the aggregate amount of such fees shall be in-
cluded in the annual budget of the said Commissioners as an asset of
the county.

1910, ch. 762, sec. 121D (p. 787). 1914, ch. 834, sec. 121D.

195. The said County Commissioners may, for neglect of duty, mis-

conduct in office, removal from the county or for inefficiency in the dis-
charge of the duties of his office, remove any Treasurer of Dorchester

*"Construed" evidently intended.