LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

act, f or any part of their respective counties or the city of Bal-
timore, to qualify as aforesaid, and upon receiving notice of
the failure of any persons appointed by him as assessor so to
qualify, the Governor shall forthwith appoint another person
to the said office, and said powers ef appointment by the said
Governor shall be exercised whenever any vacancy shall occur
in the office of any appointee appointed by him under this act;
provided, however, that such vacancy shall be filled with due
regard to minority representation and under all the conditions
hereinbefore provided for; and upon failure on the part of
any similar officer appointed by the County Commissioners to
BO qualify, they shall appoint a proper person to fill such
vacancy.

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171. That the State Tax Commissioner be and he is hereby
directed forthwith to prepare printed instructions and forms ,
for the guidance and direction of the assessors, members of
the Boards of Control and Review and clerks to said Boards
appointed under the provisions of this act, but such instructions
shall in all particulars be in conformity with the provisions of
this act, and he shall transmit to each of said assessors, Boards
of Control and Review, and clerks, two printed copies each
of the forms and instructions so by him prepared for their use,
respectively; it shall also be his duty to prepare and have
printed, at the expense of the State, a full and complete form
or schedule of all kinds of real and personal property, which
are now or may at any time be subject to taxation under the
laws of this State, to which he may add such interrogatories
as he may deem proper for the purpose of securing a full
disclosure of all such property, and he may, from time to
time, change the forms of schedule or interrogatories or make
such additions thereto as he may deem proper; and the State
Tax Commissioner shall cause the said forms of schedules and
interrogatories to be delivered to said assessors and to the
Boards of Control and Review to carry out the provisions of
this act for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and to
said boards for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight
and every second year thereafter, at such times as may be
necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions
of this act.

rax commis-
missioner to
prepare in-
structions
and forms.

172. The assessors at large, appointed under the provisions
of this act for the said several assessment districts of any
county in this State, shall assemble at the places in their respec-
tive counties at which the Circuit Courts for such respective
counties are usually held on the first Tuesday in June, in the

Meeting of
assessors.