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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 385.

AN ACT to repeal Sections six, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
nineteen and twenty-three of Chapter six hundred and
eighty-nine of the laws of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, title "An Act to
incorporate the town of Preston, in Caroline county," and to-
re-enact the same with amendments,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That sections six, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen
and twenty-three of chapter six hundred and eighty-nine of the
laws of Maryland, passed at the January Session, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, entitled "an Act to incorporate the
town of Preston, in Caroline county," be and the same is
hereby repealed, and thereupon re-enacted, so as to read as
follows :

6. On or before the second Monday in June, of each and
every year, the Commissioners of said Town of Preston shall

Appointment
of treasurer

appoint a treasurer, who may be one of their board, to serve for
one year or until his successor may be appointed and qualified.
But before said treasurer shall enter upon the duties of his office,
he shall give bond to the said commissioners in such penalty
as they, the said commissioners, may fix, with securities to
be approved by them, conditioned as they may direct. And
the said treasurer shall qualify and enter upon the duties of
his office on or before the first Monday in July succeeding his
appointment, and a failure to qualify within the time herein
specified shall be deemed a refusal to accept the office; where-
upon the commissioners shall make another appointment.

Taxation of
property.

15. That the commissioners may adopt the current assess-
ment made or to be made on real and personal property for
county purposes, and are empowered to levy on said assessed
property within the corporate limits, at their first meeting in
May, of each and every year, an equal tax not exceeding in
any one year, the sum of twenty cents on each hundred dol-
lars' assessed valuation, and in no case shall the assessment of
property by the corporation exceed the assessment of the same
property for county purposes.

List of tax-
payers.

16. That whenever the commissioners shall levy a tax they
shall cause to be made out an alphabetical list of the persons
charged therewith, and shall cause to be affixed thereto the
respective sums to be collected from such persons, and a war-
rant to the chief bailiff to collect the same.