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CHAP. 549
General levy of
taxes to be
made.
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Section 215 J. The Mayor and Council once in each
year shall make a general levy of taxes on the assessable
property of the town to meet the corporate expenses,
requirements and purposes of the town, such taxes not to
exceed the rate of twenty-five cents on every one hundred
dollars of assessed property, for the current expenses alone,
together with such further taxes as are authorized and
required by the several Acts authorizing the issue of town
bonds of Pocomoke City, including a levy not to exceed
twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars to meet the
principal and interest of the water and sewer bond of 1898,
and not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars to
meet the principal and interest of the bonds issued under
Chapter 110 of Acts of 1902, and not to exceed ten cents on
the hundred dollars to meet the principal and interest on
the Pocomoke City Hall Gold Bonds of 1906; and such levy
shall be made in each year between the first day of August
and the first day of September; and whenever the Mayor and
Council shall make the yearly levy they shall cause to be
made out a list of the parties chargeable with the taxes
levied, together with the aggregate assessment of each per-
son in real and personal property, and they shall add thereto
a copy of the ordinance, resolution or rule of the Mayor and
Council by which the said levy of taxes was made and the rate
of the said levy signed by the Mayor and town clerk and with
the corporate seal thereto affixed, and they shall deliver the
same to the tax collector of said town and it shall be a suffi-
cient warrant to him to collect the said taxes; provided, that if
on account of death or from any other extraordinary cause the
Mayor and Council should be unable to make the levy before
the first day of September in any year they may make the
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When due and
payable.
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same later, but not later than the first of November; the taxes
so levied shall become due and payable on the first day of the
next calendar month after the day in which the said levy is
made, and from and after that date on which they so fall due
they shall bear interest; the real and leasehold property
charged in the assessment book of the town, to any person or
persons, party or parties, shall be bound for the taxes which
may be levied on or against, or on account of said property,
and for all taxes that may be levied against such person or
persons, party or parties; and all such taxes shall be a lien
on said real and leasehold property, and shall, as a lien, have
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