FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

thirty days; such imprisonment to be in the town lockup, if
one be provided, or in the county jail, and the sheriff of
Prince George's county shall receive and confine any person
so committed.

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SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the commissioners may
pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the
prevention of the health of the town, and remove all nuisances
from and prohibit all business within the corporate limits
thereof, as shall in their opinion injuriously affect the sanitary
condition thereof.

May remove
nuisances.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall,
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and each fourth
year thereafter, appoint three assessors, freeholders, who shall,
under the discretion of the said commissioners, make an assess-
ment of all .the property, real, personal and mixed, in said town,
at a fair cash value at public sale, as near as they may be able
to determine the same. The said commissioners shall provide
by ordinance for hearing appeals from any valuation which
may be made. They shall cause to be made from time to
time, during the said four years periods, assessments of improve-
ments made and of other property, not contained in the gen-
eral assessment list. They may in their discretion appoint the
town treasurer as one of said assessors. They shall make such
other provisions as in their judgment may be necessary to
carry into full force and effect the assessment herein provided
for.

Assessment
of property.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall
have power to levy and collect taxes, not to exceed forty cents
on the one hundred dollars, of the property as assessed, in any
one year; the levy shall be made on or before the thirtieth
day of June for each year, and all taxes so levied shall be a
lien on any and all property of the person against whom they
may be levied.

Taxation of
property.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That whenever the commis-
sioners 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 warrant to the treasurer to collect
the same.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall, within
ten days after the receipt of such list and warrant, render to

Alphabetical

list.