ART. 11.] FREDERICK COUNTY.

condemned for the purpose of opening or widening of
any streets, lanes or alleys within the city of Frederick,

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with full power lo issue bonds in the name of the
mayor, aldermen and common council of Frederick, to
be signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the regis-
ter, in sums not less than one hundred dollars, bearing
interest, the interest payable semi-annually, payable in
twenty years from the date thereof, and redeemable at
any time within five years after date, at the pleasure of
the said corporation, the interest whereof shall be
receivable in payment of corporation taxes.

Bonds.

167. The mayor, aldermen and common council of
Frederick shall have power at such time or times as
they may think proper, to appoint commissioners or
assessors, to revise, amend, correct, alter and change
the assessment of the property of the citizens of said
municipal corporation, and to add to or reduce the
valuation of the property real or personal of said citi-
zens or any portion thereof; thereupon the taxes herein-
before authorized shall be levied on such new revised

Revising, &c,
assessments.

or changed valuation. And it is further provided that
a right of appeal from the assessment made as afore-
said by the said tax commissioners shall be had to the
mayor and board of aldermen and the president of the
board of common council, or either two of them, whose
duty it shall be, under such terms as may be prescribed
by the corporate authorities aforesaid, to examine into
the merits or demerits of such appeal, and whose
decision in the premises shall be final, and the assess-
ment so corrected and amended shall be applicable jto
all taxes authorized under the authority of the corpo-
ration of Frederick aforesaid.

Appeal.

168. The said mayor, aldermen and common council
are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and
collect all necessary taxes on the real and personal
property within the taxable limits of said corporation
as are now assessed and taxed within said limits for
county and state purposes under the recent assessment
made in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, chapter one hundred and fifty-seven, and

Levy and col-
lection of taxes.