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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany

Copy, evi-
dence.

County, and s aid map, or a certified copy thereof, shall be
prima facie evidence of the contents thereof in any suit or

suits, action or actions in any court of law or equity in this

State, and all water mains, sewers and drains hereafter

constructed shall also be recorded on similar plate, pro-

vided, however, that for all sanitary and police purposes the

Police

mayor and city council of Cumberland shall have and ex-

limits

ercise full authority for one mile in every direction beyond

the bounds and limits of said city.

Election

49. The election for mayor and city councilmen shall be

for Mayor
and

held under the provisions of article thirty-three of the Code

Council-
men

of Public General Laws of Maryland and the amendments

thereto.

08. All the vacancies in the city council shall be filled

Vacancies-
how filled

by the city council without delay, from the ward or wards

from which such vacancies occur, or at large as the case may

be, provided, that the said vacancy shall be filled by a per-

son of the same politics as the one who has died, resigned

or been removed, and in case of a vacancy in the office of

mayor, the president of the council shall act as mayor

until the next city election, and the qualification of his suc-

cessor.

59. Said city council may from time to time cause an

May make

assessment to be made of all the property, real, personal or

Assess-
ments

otherwise, aud 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 assessable property for general

purposes, and shall, from among the members of the city

council, appoint three persons, to be known as the Assess-

ment Committee, whose duty it shall be, at all times, to

assess such property and securities as may come to their

knowledge, and have the same put upon the assessment

books of the city.

60. Any person may appeal from the valuation made by

said assessors or Assessment Committee, or from any assess-

Appeal

ment now in force, to said city council, and said city

from As-

council shall arrange by ordinance for the hearing of such

sessments

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 appeal, said city council or its committee

may examine the party appealing under oath, and shall re-

assess the property of such applicant as they may deem just ;