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mended to them by the assessors in each county, and in
hearing protests against said assessments, shall each re-
ceive the sum of not exceeding Ten Dollars ($10) per day,
in addition to their salaries as County Commissioners, and,
in Allegany County, the Clerk to the County Commissioners
shall be entitled to Ten Dollars ($10) per day for work
in connection with the review of tax assessments. The
Counsel to the County Commissioners in their respective
counties shall be counsel to the said Commissioners in said
review of assessments or hearing of protests, and shall
be entitled to reasonable compensation for services ren-
dered, in addition to the salary as counsel to said County
Commissioners. The Supervisor of Assessments or one
of the assessors shall be present at all such reviews or
hearings, to explain and support his recommendations
and those of the County Assessors. It shall be unlawful
for the County Commissioners (or Appeal Tax Court, if
provided under Section 186), to decrease the amount of
an assessment after the date of finality for any year, un-
less a protest against said assessment was duly filed before
the date of finality. It shall also be unlawful for the said
County Commissioners (or Appeal Tax Court), at any time
between general reviews of assessments in a district to
decrease an assessment therein, without first notifying and
consulting with the Supervisor of Assessments; and if such
a reduction should be made without notice and consulta-
tion it shall be void.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 165.
(Senate Bill 168)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
2 of Chapter 409 of the Acts of 1935, creating the Upper
Potomac River Commission, relating: to the appointment
of a member of said Commission from Allegany and
Garrett Counties.

SECTION 1. Belt enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2 of Chapter 409 of the Acts of 1935, creating
the Upper Potomac River Commission, be and it is hereby