404 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said law, insolvent and miscellaneous papers and the making
of such changes in and addition to the furniture and fixtures
of said office, shall be paid out of the surplus revenue of the
said Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

65. There shall be three County Commissioners for Bal-
timore county, who shall hold office for the term of two years,
and shall be eligible for re-election. They shall each receive,
in addition to their salaries as members of the Highways
Commission, an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, and
no more for any purpose whatever, payable monthly by the
Treasurer of said county; and they are required to meet for
the transaction of public business, at their office at Towson,
on Tuesday and Wednesday of each week, and daily from the
first Tuesday in March in each year until the annual levy is
made.

66. They shall levy the State and county taxes for said
county on or before the first day of March in each year.

67. They shall levy within the year for all expenses and
disbursements of the county, which, by a careful estimate,
will be required for the year, with ten per cent, added allow-
ances and expenses of collection.

68. For the collection of taxes in Baltimore county, the
valuation of property subject to taxation in said county, as it
shall appear upon the assessment books on the first day of
March in each and every year, shall be final and conclusive
and constitute the basis upon which taxes for the next ensuing
fiscal year shall be assessed and levied; provided, that this
provision shall not apply to property liable to taxation in
Baltimore county which may have escaped or which may
have been omitted in the regular course of valuation; but
such property shall be valued and assessed and the owner or
owners thereof charged with all back and current taxes justly
due thereon whenever the same may be discovered and placed
upon the assessment books; and the annual levy for each and
every year shall be deemed and taken to have embraced all
such property as may have escaped taxation as aforesaid;
provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to give
said County Commissioners the right to assess property for
more than four years' back taxes; and the provisions of this
section, when they shall become operative, shall repeal all
Acts or parts of Acts, laws or parts of laws, inconsistent
herewith to the extent of such inconsistency.

69. Said County Commissioners of Baltimore county are
hereby prohibited from spending or appropriating during the