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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

assessment of the same property for county pur

poses; and the commissioners may levy a tax thereon

not exceeding in any one year twenty cents in the

hundred dollars worth of assessable property.

SEC. 16. Any person may appeal from the valua-

tion of the assessor to the commissioners, who shall

Right of ap-

meet on the first Monday in June after any such

peal.

assessment and remain in session as long as may be

reasonable, to hear and determine such appeals, and

shall give reasonable notice of any such meeting,

and shall increase or abate such assessment as they

shall think just.

SEC. 17. Whenever the commissioners shall levy

a tax they shall cause to be made out an alphabeti-

Prepar
alphabetical
list.

cal 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

chief bailiff to collect the same.

SEC. 18. The chief bailiff shall, within ten days

Render tax

after the receipt of such list and warrant, render to

bills.

each person named therein an account or tax bill,

showing the amount due by him, if he be a resident

of the town, and if he be a non-resident, and in con-

sequence thereof cannot conveniently be served with

said account or tax bill, he shall publish such ac-

Publish ac-

count or tax bill in some newspaper printed and

count.

published in said Montgomery county, at the ex-

pense of the taxpayer, and may, unless the same be

paid within thirty days after the delivery or publi-

cation of such account, collect the same, with all

costs by distress and sale of the real and personal

property of the delinquent at public auction, after

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

some newspaper published in said county.

SEC. 19. The president of the commission shall

Execute deed

execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed of the

property so sold, and the said deed shall convey to

the purchaser the said property, and shall be pre-

sumptive evidence that all the requirements of law
have been complied with in making such sale and

deed.

Pay collec-

SEC. 20. The chief bailiff shall make all collec-

tions to clerk.

tions required of him, and pay the same to the clerk