2092 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

execution upon judgment, unless good and sufficient bond be
given for payment of fine and all costs in case judgment be
affirmed.

1888, ch. 186.

151. The mayor and council shall have charge and control of
the lighting of the streets of said town, and shall have power to
contract for lighting the same. The mayor and council shall
have power to contract with any water company for the use of
water, for use in case of fire, for sprinkling streets and other
public purposes.

Ibid.

152. All property within the corporate limits of Salisbury,
except judgments and private securities, shall be taxed for muni-
cipal purposes; and the council at their first meeting in July,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and every five years there-
after, or oftener, shall appoint three citizens noted for their good
judgment in the fair valuation of property, as assessors, who,
after subscribing to an oath to perform the duties imposed upon
them without fear, favor, partiality or prejudice, shall proceed to
value the real estate and improvements thereon, and all property
liable to assessment and taxation under the laws of the State,
judgments and private securities excepted, at a fair and just
market valuation, and return the same, under their hands, to the
mayor and council within thirty days, unless their time be ex-
tended ; and if any person shall feel aggrieved at the valuation
and assessment of his property by the said assessors, he may, at
any time within two weeks from the return of the said assess-
ment, appeal from such valuation to the council, who, on good
cause shown, may make any alterations in said assessment which
they may think proper and right; and all persons interested may
inspect, free of charge, the books of assessment; provided, that
the assessed value of any person's property that does not exceed
two hundred dollars shall be exempt from taxation.

Ibid.

153. The council shall, in each and every year, at least two
weeks before making the levy, add and include in the assessment,
all taxable property omitted by the assessors, all property acquired
since the assessment, and improvements made since; and they
shall give at least two weeks' notice, in one or more newspapers