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are allowed by the provisions of this section, or shall receive any
pay or commission for or on account of any advertising, printing
or surveying, or any contract therefor, or for anything which
may be done under the provisions of any of the sections of this
sub-title of this article, or shall for himself or any other person, dis-
count or buy, or receive for less than its face and real value any claim
Against said county, or certificate of indebtedness issued thereby, the
person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and

upon indictment and conviction shall pay a fine of not less than

one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars for each and
every such offence, one-half to go to the informer and the other
half to the school fund of said county.

1886, ch. 144.

233. It shall be the duty of the treasurer, in his annual visits
to the different election districts of the said county, for the pur-
pose of receiving and collecting the State and county taxes, as
provided in section 224, and at all other times, to inform himself
by all lawful means of all property, stock or investments in said

county liable to taxation and not included in the last revised list
of assessments; and of all buildings and improvements, and of all
property created or acquired since said revised assessment, and
shall value the same at the full cash value thereof, and shall make
return thereof to the county commissioners; and for the purposes
of this section the said treasurer shall be clothed with the power
of general assessor, and shall receive the fees heretofore allowed
by law or usage to collectors of taxes for assessing new property
in said county, and his valuation thereof shall be subject to re-
vision and correction by said commissioners; it shall, moreover,
be lawful for the county commissioners to appoint in each of the
election districts of said county one of the constables thereof to act
under this section, and to make such return to the said commis-
sioners, in which case each of said constables so appointed shall be
clothed with said powers of general assessor, and shall respectively
receive the fees aforesaid on property so returned by them respec-
tively; provided, however, that in no case shall said fees be
allowed to any other of said officers than the one first making
return as aforesaid, and to each only on such property as is returned
by him.