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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tion under this charter, but shall not be conclusive

evidence of such right to vote ; said City Council

shall annually, on or before the second Monday in

April in each year, elect a person to act in conjunc-

tion with the city clerk, as officers of registration,

and such person shall be of different politics from

said city clerk, and the two shall sit as officers of

registration at the council chamber at least five days,

commencing on the second Monday in May each

year, and nine hours each day, and twenty days'

public notice of such sitting shall be given by ad-

vertisement in each of the newspapers of said city.

49. Whenever the Mayor and City Council shall

levy any tax they shall cause to be made out an

alphabetical list of the persons chargeable therewith,

How col-

and affix the respective sums to be collected from

lected.

each person, and shall specify the levied for general

purposes and the amount levied for interest, and the

amount levied for the sinking, provided for the

redemption of the bonds and funded debt of the city

as separate items, in accordance with the ordinances

of said city now existing and issued, or to be issued

in pursuance of any act of the legislature, and annex

to the said list a warrant to the collector to collect

the same ; and the said collector shall, within thirty

days after the receipt of such warrant and list, ren-

Furnish ac-

der to each person named therein an account of his,

count.

her or their tax, and may, unless the same be paid

within thirty days after the delivery of such account,

collect the same by distress and the sale of goods

and chattels of the delinquent; and said collector

shall account for the amount of such assessment with

the Mayor and City Council, and shall make monthly
returns and payments in the manner directed by

said Council of all taxes collected by him, under

penalty of double the amount thereof.

50. All taxes levied by said Mayor and City Coun-

Taxes for

cil for the general purposes of said corporation, or

general pur-

for the payment of interest, or for the sinking fund

poses.

provided for the redemption of the bonds and funded

indebtedness of the city, now issued or hereafter to

be issued in pursuance of any act of the Legislature,

shall be a lien on the property of the party or par-

ties against whom said tax may be charged, whether

such person be a resident or non-resident of the city,