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shall be had; should any commissioner elect fail to qualify within twenty
days after receiving the certificate of his election, the commissioners shall
order and hold a new election, after giving ten days' notice thereof; and
should any vacancy occur in the board of commissioners from any cause
whatever, the commissioners are authorized to fill such vacancy by the
appointment of a qualified person for the unexpired term of said officer.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 182. 1830, ch. 105.

451. Each of said commissioners shall receive a salary of fifteen dol-
lars a year; the salary of the treasurer, clerk and bailiff shall be fixed
by the board of commissioners.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 183. 1880, ch. 105. 1894, ch. 280. 1908, ch. 191 (p. 1027).

1920, ch. 134.

452. The Commissioners of the town of St. Michaels shall have full
power and authority to levy on all property, real, personal and mixed, of
all kinds and descriptions whatsoever, within the corporate limits of said
town provided for in an Act passed by the General Assembly of Mary-
land at the Session of 1908, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents
on every one hundred dollars' worth of property in any one year, and
in the same proportion upon any greater or smaller share of property,
after a just and fair assessment and valuation by such suitable and dis-

creet person or persons, acting under oath and by said Commissioners
appointed, the said assessment and valuation to be returned annually
between the first day of May and the fifteenth day of June, if deemed
necessary by said Commissioners; provided, however, that the tax of not
exceeding twenty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property
in any one year, for the purpose of providing for the interest and for

creating the sinking fund contemplated in the Act of Assembly, Chapter
113, passed at the Session of 1900, shall not be assessed, levied and

collected on the property within the additional limits of said town
provided for in Section 443, as amended by the Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland as raised in the Session of 1908, or any part
thereof; provided, however, that whenever the Commissioners of St.
Michaels shall extend the water mains so as to furnish water facilities
to the citizens of any part of the additional limits, there and thereafter
the water tax of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of
property herein referred to, shall be assessed and collected on the property
located in that portion of the additional limits so provided with water
mains.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 184. 1830, ch. 105.

453. Upon receiving the return of the assessor, they shall appoint at
least three separate days for hearing and deciding the complaints and ap-
peals of persons aggrieved by the assessment, and shall give notice thereof

*Ch. 358, 1927, amended this section by making the salary of the commissioners
$100, subject to referendum, was never submitted to the voters.