970

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 633,

Agents,
assessors and
clerks
appointed.

required by the sections of this Article to be made in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall not take place
or be made until the year nineteen hundred and six, when
the same shall be taken and made under the orders and direc-
tion of the said respective Boards of County Commissioners,
as well as the additional powers conferred by this Article,
which are hereby intended to be made, and are made full and
ample for that purpose, and said listing shall also be made
every six years thereafter. All the penalties and require-
ments prescribed in this Article, both as to owners of property
and assessors, or clerks appointed by the respective Boards of
County Commissioners, and the said boards themselves, whether
sitting to hear appeals or otherwise, shall be in force, and
apply to all assessments and valuations made by said assessors
or County Commissioners at any time under this Article, and
particularly to the listing of personal property in the year
nineteen hundred and six, and every six years thereafter, so

Appeal may
be taken.

far as the same may be applicable and practicable. There
shall always be an appeal to the Board of County Commis-
sioners from the acts of all assessors or agents appointed by
them hereunder, or others authorized to act as assessor under
the laws of this State.

Assessors
appointed.

192 B. The County Commissioners of the respective counties
shall appoint such -number of assessors to make the assess-
ments, or relisting of personal property herein provided for,
for each county, as they may deem necessary for the purpose,
who shall be residents of the county for which they are
appointed, of. the full age of twenty-one years, and of sound
judgment and discretion. Such assessors are authorized to
administer oath or affirmation to any person or officer making
the returns prescribed by the preceding section in as full and
ample-manner as is prescribed by section 176 of this Article ;

Administer
oaths.

also to administer any affidavit, oath or affirmation to any
person in pursuance of the execution of their duties as asses-
sors, as may be convenient and necessary to enable them to
make the assessments or re-listing of property under this
Article, said affidavits not to be charged for. And section
175 of this Article in relation to returns to assessors shall be
applicable to the relisting and assessment of personal property
now or hereafter to be made.

Not
affected or
Invalidated
by this Act.

192 o. That all acts done in any of the counties of this State
in reference to carrying out the provisions of said section 192 A,
chapter 275 of the Acts, of 1898, in reference to re-valuation
or re-listing of personal property and the appointment of
agents, assessors or clerks in connection therewith, shall not be
in any way affected or invalidated by this Act, but the same