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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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or receive any greater costs for fees than are allowed by the
provisions of this section, or shall receive any pay or commis-
sion for or on account of any advertising, printing or survey-
ing, or any contract therefor, or for anything which may be
done under the provisions of any of the sections of this sub-
title of this article, or shall, for himself or any other person,
discount or buy, or receive for less than its face and real
value, any claim against said county or certificate of inde.bted-
ness issued thereby, the person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction
shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than
live hundred dollars for each and every such offense, one-half
to go to the informer and the other half to the school fund of
said county.

Clothed with
power
of general
assessor.

Section 43 H. It shall be the duty of the treasurer in his
annual visits to the different election districts of the said county
tor the purpose of collecting and receiving the State and
county taxes, and at all other times, to inform himself by all
lawful means of all property, stock or investments in said
county liable to taxation and not included in the last revised
list of assessments, and of all buildings and improvements and
of all property created or acquired since said revised assess-
ment, and shall value the same at the full cash value thereof,
and shall make return thereof to the County Commissioners ;
and for the purposes of this section the said treasurer shall be
clothed with the power of general assessor, and shall receive
the fees heretofore allowed by law or usage to collectors of
taxes for assessing new property in said county, and his valua-
tion thereof shall be subject to revision and correction by said
commissioners ; it shall, moreover, be lawful for the County
Commissioners to appoint in each of the election districts of
said county one of the constables thereof to act under this
section, and to make such return to said commissioners, in
which case each of said constables so appointed shall be clothed
with said powers of general assessor, and shall respectively
receive the fees aforesaid on property, so returned by them
respectively ; provided, however, that in no case shall said
fees be allowed to any other of said officers than the one first
making return as aforesaid, and to each only on such prop-
erty ae is returned by him.

County taxes,
accounts
and money to
be paid over
to
County Com-
missioners.

Section 43 I. The treasurer shall pay over according to law,
or to the order of the said County Commissioners, in the
manner hereinbefore prescribed by the several sections of this
sub-title of this Article, all county taxes and all accounts and
moneys due said county and collected by him ; and he shall
also pay over to the Treasurer of the State, according to law,