EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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approved by the justice trying the case, to indemnify the
Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg in case he should fail
to prosecute his appeal with effect for the amount of the fine
imposed and the cost of the case before the magistrate and
in the Circuit Court for Allegany county.

ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES.
148. The Mayor and Councilmen are hereby invested with

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power to make assessments of all property in said town, real
and personal, as often as they may deem the same to be
necessary or required by the existing conditions, and they
may also from time to time make a new assessment of all the
property of said city, and in all cases where they shall make
a new assessment of the property in said town they shall
give notice four weeks in advance by advertising in at least
one newspaper, stating when they will begin to make said
assessments.
APPEALS.
149. The Mayor and Councilmen shall appoint a com-
mittee of not less than three members of the Council to meet

Assessments
and taxes.

at the Council chamber on the first Monday of June in each
year and remain in session one day, or longer if necessary,
for the hearing of appeals from assessments, and shall give a
general notice of such meetings in such manner as they may
prescribe, and said committee may examine any parties
appearing before them under oath, to be administered by
any member of said committee, and they shall have power
to increase or diminish any assessment upon any such hear-
ing; provided, however, that if any party should feel
aggrieved at the findings of said committee, then in that
event the party aggrieved shall have the right of appeal to
the Mayor and Councilmen, and the Mayor and Councilmen
may provide by ordinance for the reasonable compensation
of said committee.
LEVY.
150. They may provide by ordinance for an assessment of

Appeals.

all the property within the corporate limits, from time to
time, as often as they may deem it proper and necessary, as
above provided, and they may levy a tax thereon for the
general purposes of said municipality not exceeding in any
one year fifty cents on each one hundred ($100) dollars'
worth of property thus assessed, and if they shall deem it

Levy.