ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and such owner may answer such interrogatories con-

tained in such summons, and may appear on such

return day and answer the same under oath orally

before such county commissioners or appeal tax court,

and may present such testimony as he may desire, and

such county commissioners or appeal tax court may

think necessary and proper to be heard, and in case

such owner, after being summoned, shall fail to

Failing to ap-

answer in writing on oath, or to appear and answer

pear.

orally such interrogatories, such county commissioners

or appeal tax court, after such return day has passed,

may proceed to revalue and reassess such property, or
add such new property, according to their best judg-

ment and information in the premises; but no such

revaluation and reassessment shall be made by such

county commissioners or appeal tax court without

giving such notice, provided that nothing in this

Proviso.

section shall be construed to apply to the valuation

and assessment of new improvements or new property

discovered and assessed and returned to the county

commissioners or appeal tax court by the proper col-

lector or assessor whose duty it is to assess and return

the same.

SEC. 2. And be. it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 361.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Girdle-Tree, in

Worcester county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the citizens of Girdle-Tree, in

Worcester county, be and they are hereby constituted

Girdle-Tree in-
corporated.

a body corporate, by the name of the " Commissioners

of Girdle-Tree," and by that name may sue and be

sued, and have and 'use a common seal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the limits of said

town shall extend to the distance of one-half of a