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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

make necessary regulations for conducting the mar-

kets, and such other things as they may deem proper,

Enforce obe-
dience.

and may enforce obedience to their by-laws by such

fines, penalties and forfeitures as they may deem

reasonable, not to exceed twenty dollars for any

one offence.

53. They may cause an assessment to .be made

from time to time, by three persons by them ap-

Assessment.

pointed, of all the property, real, personal and

mixed, of all kinds and description whatever, within

the corporate limits of the said town, or owned by

the inhabitants thereof, liable by law to be valued

and assessed and chargeable with taxes in this

State; and in making said assessment the said prop-

Cash value.

erty shall be valued at its cash value, and it shall be

chargeable according to such valuation for the cor-

porate purposes of said town; provided that the tax

levied on said property shall not exceed in any one

year thirty cents on the hundred dollars of the

assessed value thereof; said assessors shall have

authority to administer oaths to persons to be as-

sessed, and take a list of their assessable property

under oath.

54. Every assessor, before he proceeds to act, shall

make oath before the mayor that he will make and

Return true

return a true valuation of property as required by

valuation.

the preceding section, and a certificate of such oath

shall be preserved on the minute book of the com-

missioners. The mayor shall give two weeks' notice

in one of the county papers of any general assess-

ment, with the names of the assessors.

55. The commissioners shall annually have three

successive sittings at least thirty days before a levy

for the correction of assessments, of which sittings

Sittings.

they shall give two weeks' notice in one of the

county papers, and shall hear evidence under oath
to be administered by the mayor, or in his absence,

by one of the other members of the board, and shall

have authority to increase or diminish any assess-

ment as may seem to them just; provided that no

assessment shall be changed without the concur-

rence of at least three of the said commissioners.

56. It shall be the duty of said commissioners to

Report to

report to the board any property in their respective

board.

wards which is liable to assessment, and which is

not upon the assessment books, and of the bailiff or