WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

737

Chapter 476.

AN ACT to provide for the levy for the present

year by the County Commissioners of Calvert

county, and to make further provision to supply

the assessment lists recently destroyed by the

burning of the court house, and for the correc-

tion of the same, and for additions thereto.

WHEREAS by the destruction by fire of the court

house in Prince Frederick, Calvert county, on the

third day of March, 1882, the greater portion of

Preamble.

the books and papers belonging to the office of

the county commissioners of Calvert county, in-

cluding the assessment books, were consumed;

therefore, to supply the loss thereof —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the county commissioners of

Calvert county be and they are hereby authorized

and empowered to make out in a suitable book or

books, to be provided for the purpose, a new list

Make out new

or lists of the assessable property in said county,

lists.

from the best information they can obtain, either

from the rough books and lists made out by the

assessors at the last assessment of property in the

said county under the general law for that pur-

pose, from the tax lists furnished the collectors of

State and county taxes, from the tax bills of tax

payers and from any other data accessible to

them, or by taking proof by deposition upon oath

which they are hereby authorized to do by writs

directed to the sheriff or any constable of the said

county, or by any other mode of gaining informa-

tion which they may deem more convenient or

expedient to effectuate the purpose; using for that

end any of the powers given by the Code of Pub-

Powers to

lic General Laws or any act or acts of assembly

use.

for similar purposes, and to make the levy for the

present year based upon the said new lists so to

be made out, and so from time to time thereafter

correct the assessment of property as shown by

said lists, and to correct and alter the valuation

of any property in said county, and to add to said

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