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property of said town, or specially upon the asses-
sable properly of persons benefitted thereby; they
shall for the purpose of opening Market street as
aforesaid, appoint three disinterested persons not
residents of said town, which said three named
persons shall on being summoned by the Sheriff of
Caroline county, so to do, on or before the first day
of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, value the
damage to the persons through whose property it
may pass, and report the amount of damage so
assessed to said Commissioners, to be by them paid
within three months thereafter.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the said Presi- dent and Commissioners shall have power to levy and collect taxes in said tow, n upon the real and personal property thereof, not exceeding in any one year, thirty-three cents in the one hundred dollars on the assessable property in said town; they shall assess the property in said town annu- ally, between the third Monday of April and the third Monday of May, by two assessors, to be by them appointed, who shall, before they proceed to assess said property, make an oath before some Jus- tice of the Peace, that he will assess and value all the real and personal property within the town of Denton, without favor, affection, partiality or prejudice, to the best of his skill and judgment; but should any person feel aggrieved at the valua- tion and assessment of his or her property by said assessor, he or she may appeal from such valua- tion to the President and Commissioners at any time within three weeks after the return of assess- ment, and the President and Commissioners may make any alteration therein they may deem just.	Power to levy and collect taxes.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the President and Commissioners shall annually appoint a Treas- urer of the corporation, who shall keep accounts of the receipts and disbursements of the funds of the corporation in a well bound book, to be provided by the Commissioners, and shall render annually to the President and Commissioners an account there-	Treasurer to be appointed.
of; but before the Treasurer shall enter upon the duties of his office, he shall give bond to the State of Maryland, with security approved by the Coun- ty Commissioners of Caroline county, in the penal- ty of one thousand dollars, conditioned that he will well and faithfully account for all moneys	Bond.