ART. 81.] REVENUE AND TAXES.

tricts numbered one, two and three shall constitute
the first district; and election districts numbered
four, five and six shall constitute the second dis-

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trict. Kent county shall constitute one assessment
district. Calvert county shall constitute one assess-
ment district. Anne Arundel county shall be divi-
ded into three assessment districts, whereof Annapo-
lis city shall constitute the first district ; the third,
fourth and fifth election districts shall constitute
the second district; and the first, second and sixth
election districts shall constitute the third district.

Kent.
Calvert.
Anne Arundel.

Dorchester county shall constitute two assessment
districts, beginning at the north of Fishing bay,
thence by and with the said Fishing bay and with
Black "Water river to the head waters of said river,
near the town of Cambridge, thence by a straight
line to the head waters of Cambridge creek, thence
with the said creek to the Choptank river, and all
on the east side of said line shall constitute the first
assessment district; all on the west side shall con-
stitute the second assessment district.

Dorchester
county.

155. The governor of the state shall appoint three
suitable persons in each of the assessment districts in
the several counties of the state and city of Balti-
more, to assess and make valuations hereby directed,
within their respective districts ; said assessors shall
be property holders, and shall have resided in their
assessment districts, at least one year previous to
such appointment. He shall also appoint a board of
control and review, of three suitable persons for each
assessment district of Baltimore city; each board

Ibid s 3
Governor to
appoint asses-
sors and board
of control and
review

shall have the power to appoint a competent clerk,
who shall also act as clerk to the commissioners for
their respective districts, and the said clerk shall be
allowed such compensation as a majority of the
assessors and board of control and review may deem
just and right.

Clerks, how
appointed and
paid

156. Every assessor appointed in virtue of this
act, before he acts as such, shall take the following
oath or affirmation before some person authorized

Ibid s 4
Assessors'
oath