ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ten cents in the hundred dollars' worth of
assessable property.
SEC. 16. And be it enact ed, That any person

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may appeal from the valuation of the assessor
of the commissioners, who shall meet on the
first Monday of June after any such assessment
and remain in session as long as may be neces-
sary then, and determine such appeals; and shall
give reasonable notice of any such meeting,
and may increase or abate such assessment as
they may deem best.
SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That whenever the

May appeal.

commissioners shall levy a tax they shall cause
to be made out an alphabetical list of the per-
sons charged therein, and shall cause to be af-
fixed thereto the respective sums to be collected
from such persons, and a warrant to the bailiff
to collect same.
SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That the bailiff
shall, within ten days after the receipt of said

Alphabetical
list.

list and warrant, render to each person an ac-
count or tax bill showing the amount due by
him, if he be a resident of the town ; and if he
be a non-resident, and in consequence thereof
cannot be served with said account or tax bill,
he shall publish such account or tax bill in some
paper printed and published in Charles county
at the expense of the taxpayer; and may, unless
the same be paid within thirty days after the
delivery or publication of such account, collect
the same, with all costs, by distress and sale of
the real and personal property of the delinquent
at public auction, after giving at least ten days'
notice of such sale in some newspaper published
in said county.
SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the president

Shall render
bill.

of the commissioners shall execute and deliver
to the purchaser a deed of the property so sold;
and the same deed shall convey to the purchaser
the said property, and shall be presumptive evi-
dence that /all the requirements of law have
been complied with in making such sale and
deed.

Give deed.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the bailiff
shall make all collections required of him, and
pay the same to the clerk within six months
from the time the tax bill is placed in his hands.

Collect and
pay.