330 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

149. The assessors shall be allowed such compensation for
the performance of their duties as the City may by ordinance
direct.

150. Before increasing the assessment of any property
which has been theretofore assessed, or adding any new prop-
erty not valued and returned to them by the proper assessor,
it shall be the duty of the said Court, as the case may be, to
notify the owner of such property by written or printed sum-
mons, containing such interrogatories in regard to the prop-
erty as they may require to be answered on oath, and appoint-
ing a certain day for such owner to answer such interrogatories,
either orally or in writing, and to make such statement, or pre-
sent such proof as he may desire in the premises; and such notice
shall be served on such owner or left at his place of abode at
least five days before the day of hearing appointed in such sum-
mons. Such owner may answer the interrogatories con-
tained in such summons, and may appear on such return day
and answer the same under oath, orally, before said Court, and
may present such testimony as he may desire and said Court
may think necessary and proper to be heard. In case such
owner, after being summoned, shall fail to answer in writing on
oath, or to appear and answer orally such interrogatories, such
Court, after such return day has passed, may proceed to re-
value and re-assess said property, or add such new property,
according to its best judgment and information in the prem-
ises ; but no such re-valuation and re-assessment shall be made
by such Court without giving such notice ; provided, that noth-
ing in this section shall be construed to apply to the valuation
and assessment of new improvements or new property discov-
ered and assessed and returned to the said Court by the proper
assessor whose duty it is to assess and return the same.

151. The City Register shall on each first day of May, July
and September make out and deliver to the said Court a full
and accurate list of the holders of all loans of the City, the in-
terest of which is payable on such respective dates.

152. The said Court shall in each year carefully examine
the said lists and correct the same by striking therefrom all the