3440 ARTICLE 16.

charge of or maintaining any such buildings, upon conviction before the
Mayor of the Town of Glen Echo or any justice of the peace in Mont-
gomery County shall be adjudged guilty of maintaining a common nui-
sance, and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than..............

dollars per day for each and every day such nuisance shall be permitted
to continue and shall be required by said court to abate such nuisance.

1906, ch. 826, sec. 14. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 292.

467. The council may adopt suitable measures for the removal of
sewage and garbage, and fix the amount to be paid therefor, which shall
be paid by a special tax for that purpose to be imposed on the occupants
of the respective buildings, and collected therefrom, provided that the
owners of said property shall be responsible for said tax in case the same
cannot be collected from the occupants of the buildings, and the same shall
be a lien on said property and collected as other taxes are collected; and
the council may pass suitable ordinances to enable the proper officers to
collect and remove all filth from the town, and provide for the disposal
thereof; a special tax may be imposed to carry out the provisions of this
section, not exceeding the sum of fifty cents per month on any one house,
to be paid by the owner or occupant thereof.

1906, ch. 826, sec. 15. 1912, oh. 790, sec. 293.

468. On or before the first day of June, 1912, and each third year
thereafter, the Mayor, with the consent, advice and approval of the coun-
cil shall appoint three assessors, freeholders of said town who shall, under
the direction of said council, make an assessment of all property, real, per-
sonal and mixed, in said town, at a fair cash value at public sale as near
as they may be able to determine the same, and the council shall imme-
diately levy a tax thereon not exceeding fifty cents on the hundred dollars'
worth of assessable property in any one year; and all taxes so levied shall
be a lien on any and all property of the person or persons against whom
they may be levied; and any person may appeal from the valuation of said
assessors to the council, which shall meet on the third Monday in June
after said assessment and remain in session from day to day as long as
may be reasonable to hear and determine said appeals, and shall give rea-
sonable notice of said meetings, and shall increase or reduce said assess-
ment as they may deem just; and the council shall once a year, before fix-
ing and deciding upon the amount of taxes, licenses to be assessed for the
ensuing year, cause to be made out a detailed statement exhibiting the
items of liability and expense during said year, and shall cause the same
to be published at least three times, once a week for three consecutive
weeks, in a newspaper published in Montgomery County, and after hear-
ing and considering objections by the owners of said property in said
town, if any such should be made, shall revise said detailed estimates and
fix and assess for the ensuing year such rate of taxation not exceeding fifty
cents on every hundred dollars' worth of property as they shall deem nec-
essary, together with the revenues of the town, to meet said revised de-