ART. 1. ] CUMBERLAND. 27
1878, ch. 484.
59. Said city council may from time to time cause an assess-
ment to be made of all the property, real, personal or otherwise,
and securities liable to State and county taxes, by three assessors
appointed by them, and levy thereon a tax not exceeding in any
one year fifty cents on every one hundred dollars worth of assess-
able property, for general purposes.
Ibid.
60. Any person may appeal from the valuation made by said
assessors, or from any assessment now in force, to said city coun-
cil, and said city council shall arrange by ordinance for the hear-
ing of such appeals, and fix a time therefor, and may hear the
same by a committee of themselves or otherwise, and shall give
notice of the time and place fixed for hearing such appeals by
advertisement in one or more newspapers of said city, and upon
such appeals, said city council, or its committee, may examine-
the party appealing, under oath, and shall reassess the property
of such appellant, as they may deem just; but no appeal shall be
heard except during the time so fixed by such ordinance, which
time shall be in the month of June in each year; and said city
council shall make no changes in the assessments at any other
time.
ibid.
61. The mayor, on conviction in any court of law of wilful
neglect of duty, or misbehavior in office, shall be removed from
office by the governor of the State, and a successor shall be elected
as in case of a vacancy.
1882, ch. 360.
62. The mayor, by virtue of his office, shall see that the ordi-
nances of the city are duly and faithfully executed; by and with
the advice and consent of the city council, he shall appoint all
officers of said city who are not made elective by the people or
city council by the charter of said city, except the city treasurer
and collector, who shall be elected by the city council. Annu-
ally, on the first Monday in May, he shall report to the council
in writing the general state of the city, with an accurate account
of the moneys received and expended, which report shall be pub-
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