JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

payment to the said directors for the purpose oi opening, cut-
ting, cleansing or repairing said ditch or drain, to be imposed
as aforesaid, within thirty days after demand of the same by
the said directors, it shall and may be lawful for the said di-
rectors, or a majority of them, to collect the proportion due
from such delinquent proprietor or proprietors, by distress
and public sale of any goods or chattels of such proprietor or
proprietors: of which sale ten days notice shall be given, or if
the said directors, or a majority of them, shall think fit, they
may raise the money due from such delinquent proprietor or
proprietors, by making a lease of the whole or any part of
said branch, or adjoining upland belonging to such delinquent
proprietor or proprietors, for any term of years not exceeding
five, and dispose of such lease so made, for the best price in
current money that can be had for the same at public sale, and
on the same notice as is before directed, and if there shall be
any overplus of the money raised by distress or lease as
aforesad, remaining in the hands of said directors, after pay-
ing the proportion of said proprietor or proprietors in arrear
as aforesaid, and the expenses of distress and sale or lease as
aforesaid, the said overplus shall be returned to the said pro-
proprietor or proprietors to whom it may belong.

CHAP. 76,

SEC. 4, And be it enacted, That the third section of the
original act, to which this is a supplement, be, and the same
is hereby repealed

Repeal;

CHAPTER 77.

An act for the revaluation of the real and personal property in
in Kent county.

Passed Feb'ry 29.

1828,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
Land, That the commissioners of the tax for Kent county, be,
and they are hereby authorised and directed to meet at Ches-
ter town, in said county, immediately after the passage of this
act, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, and proceed
agreeably to the provisions of an act passed at November
.session, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled, An act for the
valuation of real and personal property in the several coun-
ties of this state, to re-value and re-assess the real and per-
sonal property within said county.

Revaluation direc-
ted.

SEC, 2. And be it enacted, That Nicholas Smith, Benjamin
Merritt, William B. Wilmer, William Perkins and William
H. Durding, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners
of the tax for said county, and the commisiiorjiers are hereby
authorised and empowered to carry into full effect and opera-
tion all the provisions of this and the act of eighteen hundred
and twelve, entitled, An act for the valuation of real and per-
sonal property in the several counties of this state.

Commissioners
named and em-
powered.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if any executor, adminis-
trator, guardian or trustee, shall hereafter fail to inform the

Adminurttators,
trustees and guar-
dians liable for neg-
lect to tansfer.