332 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

155. Each member of the said Court shall receive fifty dol-
lars, annually, for the service required in the three preceding
sections ; and the City Register, the sum of three hundred dol-
lars for the services therein required of him ; the said sums to
be paid by the Treasurer on the warrant of the State Comp-
troller in pursuance of Article 81, section 93, of the Code of
Public General Laws.

156. Whenever any person shall make application for an
allowance or deduction on account of the sale, transfer, aliena-
tion, loss or removal of any property, or the collection or pay-
ment of any public or private security for money, the said Court
shall interrogate him on oath in reference thereto, and the dis-
posal of the same, and especially inquire of him to whom the
same has been sold or transferred, and the amount of the pur-
chase money or the money collected, and how the same has
been invested.

157. The said Court shall also interrogate the said person
on oath in reference to any acquisitions or investments made
by him, and not already assessed, and the amount of all such
acquisitions and investments shall be added to his assessable
property, and if he refuses to answer, no allowance or deduction
shall be made ; they shall also have power to summon before
them any person whom they may know or be credibly informed
has acquired new property, or whose account of taxable prop-
erty may, in their judgment, require revision and correction,
and examine such person on oath touching the same ; and any
person so summoned, and refusing to appear, and any person
refusing to be sworn, or to answer touching said amount or
touching his or her property, shall be liable to prosecution
therefor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not exceeding fifty
dollars for each offense, to be collected as other fines are col-
lected.

158. Any person who shall remove to the City of Baltimore
from any County or City in which his property has been assessed,
and whose personal property has not been assessed in the
City of Baltimore, or any person whose property or some part
thereof, has not been assessed, shall, when required by said