LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and after such notice as the said Council shall by ordinance
prescribe.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Council shall

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appoint annually an assessor, who shall have power to assess
for taxation all property within the corporate limits of said
town, except such real estate as may be used exclusively for
farming purposes, and except such as may by law be exempt
from taxation, and his powers, duties and course of proceeding
shall be such as shall be provided by ordinances ; and said
Council shall further provide by ordinance for a right of
appeal from any assessment or revision of assessment made by
such assessor, to the said Council, whose duty it shall be under
such terms as shall be prescribed by ordinance, to examine into
the merits of such appeal, and their decision in the premises
shall be final. If any person or body corporate shall fail to
appeal from the assessment or revision of assessment of his,
her or its property, made by the assessor, or from the action of
the assessor upon any application for reduction of any assess-
ment to the next session of said Council for the hearing of
appeals in such cases, such assessment and action of the said
assessor shall be final and conclusive.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said Council shall

Assessor
appointed.

annually levy upon the property assessed for municipal taxa-
tion such tax as may be necessary for corporate expenses, not to
exceed in any one year twenty-five cents on the one hundred
dollars, in addition to the tax required to be levied for the pay-
ment of the interest on the bonds issued by the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy to the amount of four thousand dollars,
under the authority of chapter seventy-two of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, of the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, and for the creation of a sinking fund for the
payment of said bonds at maturity.

Tax to be
levied.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the payment of taxes
levied by said Council may be enforced by suit to be brought
in the name of the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy, or by dis-
traint as now provided by law.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That sections three, four and
eleven of chapter ninety-one of the Acts passed at the January

Suit brought.

session, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the
General Assembly of Maryland, be and the same are hereby
repealed. But all rights, suits, claims, demands, contracts or
obligation of the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy, existing and
pending at the time of the passage of this Act shall remain in
full force and effect ; and the Mayor and members of the

Eepeal.