ART. 11. ] FREDERICK COUNTY.

said inquisition be set aside, the court may direct
another to be taken in the same manner as the first,

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every inquisition shall describe the property taken or
the bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity
and duration of the interest in the same therein

What inquisi-
tion to state.

valued, and such valuation when paid or tendered to
the owner of the property or his legal representatives,
shall entitle the said commissioners to the estate, use
and interest in the same so valued for the purposes
aforesaid, as fully as if the same had been conveyed
by the owner, and the valuation if not received from
the said commissioners when tendered, may at any
time thereafter be received without cost by the owner
or his legal representatives.

Tender of valu-
ation.

206. The said president and commissioners shall
have power to levy and collect taxes in said town,
not exceeding in any one year thirty cents in the
hundred dollars valuation, on the assessable property
of said town, and they shall once in five years or
oftener if they think proper, appoint an assessor who

Ibid. s. 17.
Taxes.

shall under oath, assess and value the property in
said town, in the same manner and with like autho-

Assessment.

rity as county assessors; provided, that the taxable
limits of said town shall include all that part of the
town now improved, and all that part recently laid
off" and partially improved; fully authorizing the

Proviso.

commissioners to extend the taxable limits with the
improvements hereafter made as they may deem just.
But in no instance shall it exceed the corporate limits
as laid down in section nine. [201. ]

Taxable limits.

207. If any owner of property within said village
shall feel aggrieved by the assessment so made, he may
appeal to the board of commissioners, who may make
such deduction from the valuation of his property as
they may deem reasonable and just.

Ibid. s. 18.
Appeal from
assessment.

208. Sub-Sec. 1. The said board of commissioners
may from time to time, under such conditions as they
by their ordinances direct, appoint such officers as they
may deem necessary to carry into effect their ordi-
nances, among whom shall be a town bailiff, who shall

Ibid. s. 19.
Appointment of
officers.