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which is not included in the list of assessments and shall value the same
and make returns of such valuations verified by affidavit giving the names

of the reputed owners of said property, together with their postoffice ad-
dresses and the description and value as fixed by him of such property to
the County Commissioners, and it shall be the duty of the clerk to the
County Commissioners to mail to the postoffice addresses of each person
as shown by said return a written notice warning such person of the inten-
tion of the County Commissioners after ten days from the date of such
notice, which date shall be the mailing 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 the date of such notice; and in the event no good cause to
the contrary be shown within the time limit by such notice, the County
Commissioners shall proceed to assess such property to the persons ap-
pearing by said returns to be the owners thereof at the valuation placed
thereon by such assessor. That the assessor so appointed shall have an
office in the Court House at Rockville and shall attend same each and every
day and shall perform such other duties in relation to the duties of his
office as may be required by the County Commissioners. That said
assessor may be removed from office with or without cause or notice by
the County Commissioners, who are authorized and empowered to appoint
his successor for the unexpired term.

That said County Commissioners shall annually levy and pay to said
assessor a salary not to exceed the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per
annum, payable monthly.*

TAXES.
1906, ch. 171, sec. 62X. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 152.

222. All county taxes shall be due as soon as they are levied, and if
not paid on or before the first day of September of the year in which they
are levied shall bear interest from that date until paid at the rate of six
per centum per annum, and at any time after the first day of January
next succeeding the date of the levy, and not before, payment may be en-
forced by sale, as hereinbefore provided.

1906, ch. 171, sec. 3. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 154.

223. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken or understood as im-
pairing the duties and obligations of collectors of taxes in Montgomery
County appointed prior to the first day of July, 1906, in regard to levies
of taxes in their hands for collection; and it is hereby expressly provided
that said collector shall proceed to complete such collections under the
existing provisions of law as fully as if this Act had not been passed, and
the clerk to the county commissioners shall continue to perform all the
duties by him required to be performed in relation to the receipt and
disbursements of taxes heretofore levied until all outstanding accounts
thereupon dependent shall be settled and closed, and for that purpose alone

*Sec. 2, ch. 258, 1922, repealed all Acts Inconsistent therewith.