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no compensation except as provided for in Section
198 of this Article, and it shall be the duty of
the Clerk to the County Commissioners to mail to
the post-office addresses of each person, as shown by said
returns, a written notice warning such person of the inten-
tion of the County Commissioners after ten days from the
date of such notice to assess to such person said property
appearing by said return to belong to such person, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the
expiration of ten days from date of such notice; and in
the event that no good cause to the contrary be shown
within the time limited by such notice to the County Com-
missioners shall proceed to assess such property to the
persons appearing by said returns to be the owners thereof
at the valuation placed thereon by such assessors; and
nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with
or affect the right, power and duties of the County Com-
missioners under and by virtue of the General Laws of the
State in relation to such new, or other assessments of
property.

Section 198. The County Commissioners of Dorchester
County shall between the first day of January and the first
day of April, beginning with the year 1915, and every two
years thereafter, appoint a clerk to the County Commis-
sioners of said County, and unless sooner removed for
cause he shall hold his office for two years from the
1st day of July next succeeding his appointment; and
shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dol-
lars, payable monthly, by Dorchester County. The
said official shall perform all the duties and services
now required by law or which may hereafter be required
of him by law, or which may be required of him by any
order of the County Commissioners. He shall make full,
complete and accurate minutes of all transactions and pro-
ceedings of the Board of County Commissioners and of all
orders passed by said board, and record the same in suit-
able and durably bound volumes with index to facilitate
reference to all such transactions, proceedings and orders;
he shall endorse, file, number and index all papers presented
to the said board and acted upon by the same, and so ar-
range, keep and preserve them that by reference to such
index and number such papers may at any and all times
be readily found; he shall each year immediately upon and
after the annual assessment and levy make out the assess-
ment and levy book for each district in the county, which
shall set forth the name of each taxpayer in said district