FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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for any one offence for the violation of their ordinances, and

commit offenders to the county jail until the same be paid,

with costs.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the commissioners may

pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the

Health.

preservation of the health of the town, and remove all

nuisances from and prohibit all business within the corporate

limits thereof, as shall, in their opinion injuriously affect

the sanitary condition thereof.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted. That the commissioners may

adopt the current assessment made or to be made on real and

Assess-

personal property for county purposes, and are empowered

ment.

to levy on said assessed property within the corporate limits

an equal tax from time to time, not exceeding in any one

year the sum of twenty cents on each hundred dollars

assessed valuation ; and in no case shall the assessment of

property by the corporation exceed the assessment of the

same property for county purposes.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That whenever the commis-

Tax list.

sioners shall levy a tax they shall cause to be made out an

alphabetical list of the persons charged therewith, and shall

cause to be affixed thereto the respective sums to be collected

from such persons and a warrant to the treasurer to collect

the same.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall, within

ten days after the receipt of such list and warrant, render to

Treasurer
to collect

each person named therein an account or tax bill, showing

taxes.

the amount due by him, if he be a resident of the town, and

if he be a non-resident and in consequence thereof cannot

be conveniently served with said account or tax bill, he

shall give public notice of such account or tax bill, and may,

unless the same be paid within one hundred and twenty days

after the delivery or publication of such account, collect the

same with all costs, by distress and sale of the real and per-

sonal property of the delinquent at public auction, after

giving at least ten days' public notice of such sale in some

newspaper published in Caroline County.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That the president of the

commissioners shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a

Tax deed.

deed of the real property so sold, and the said deed shall

convey the said property and shall be presumtive evidence

that all the requirements of the law have been complied

with in making such sale and deed ; but the delinquent tax-

payer shall have the right to redeem at any time within

two years, by paying the unpaid tax, costs with legal interest,

and a penalty of ten per cent, thereon.

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