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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Appointment
of assessors.

196. Whenever, under the provisions of the preceding sec-
tions of this article, the Governor of this State is required to
appoint assessors at large or members of Boards of ControLand
Review from lists, for such assessment officials to be furnished
by committees of the two leading political parties of this
State, in the respective counties and the city of Baltimore,
such lists shall be so furnished by such committees, respec-
tively, on or before the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, and not afterwards; and if in any case any
such list shall not be so furnished, it shall be the duty of the
Governor to make the appointment, which he otherwise would
have made from such list, if furnished, without waiting further
for the same; provided, however, that in making any such
appointment, he shall select the appointee from the same lead-
ing political party as that on behalf of which such list should
have been furnished.

Effective

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30th, 1896.

CHAPTER 142.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 81 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," to take
its proper place at the end of said Article, and to be num-
bered Section 198.

New section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Revenue
and Taxes," to take its proper place at the end of said article,
to be designated as section 198, and to read as follows :

Assessors not
to disclose
contents of
lists.

198. The lists provided to be furnished in the preceding sec-
tions of this article, by the taxpayer to the assessors, and by
them returned to the Boards of Control and Review of Balti-
more city, and the Boards of County Commissioners of the
several counties of this State, acting as Boards of Control and
Review, shall, by the said assessors, and the said respective
Boards of Control and Review, be safely kept, and the same
shall not be disclosed to any person, other than a tax or assess-
ment official; nor shall any copies be permitted to be made, unless
in case of an appeal from said assessment, by the taxpayer, or