FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

401

Code of Public Local Laws, title " Prince George's County,"

sub-title " Hyattsville," as amended by chapter 355, Public

Repealed
and

Local Laws, session of 1890, be and the same is hereby

re-enacted.

repealed and thereupon re-enacted with a new section to be

known as section 166 A, so as to read as follows ;

165. It shall be the duty of the treasurer, together with

two assessors to be appointed by the board of commissioners,

Assessment
to be

under the direction of said board, to assess in the year 1892

made.

and biennially thereafter, and witliin such time as the

board of commissioners shall fix, each and every piece of

land within said town separately, with the improvements

thereon, at a fair cash value at public sale, as near as they

may be able to determine the same, and showing each piece

of land and the improvements thereon separately, with the

assessment value thereof, and the name of the owner thereof

when said name can be obtained, and for such service the

said treasurer and assessors shall receive such reasonable

compensation as the board of commissioners of said town

may fix by law before the assessment.

166. Immediately after the completion of said assessment,

said treasurer shall notify the president of the board of

commissioners, who shall give public notice of the fact by

Appeal.

posting notice thereof in three conspicuous places in said

town, and said assessment shall thereupon be open to the

inspection of all citizens of said town, and if any owner of

said property so assessed shall feel aggrieved by said assess-

ment he may appeal to the board of commissioners of said

town within fifteen days after the posting, and the said

board of commissioners are hereby constituted a final board

of appeals, equalization and control of said assessment,

being empowered with a political view for the government

and benefit of the community, to make such deductions or

exception from, and addition to, the assessment made by the

assessors as they may deem just, and to correct errors or

illegal assessments, upon the making of the deductions or

exceptions, addition, correction, and final completion of the

assessment roll, the board of commissioners shall levy a

tax upon all the property remaining embraced therein, not

exceeding twenty-five cents per annum, per one hundred

dollars of the valuation thereof, and shall deliver to the

treasurer their warrant for the collection thereof, which

shall be collected as provided in the act of which

this is an amendment, on or before the second Monday

in June, in the year in which no general assessment

shall be made, the treasurer shall report to the president

of the board of commissioners, all transfers of property,

sub-divisions and improvements made within the previous

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