820 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 362

CHAPTER 362.

AN ACT to amend Section 330 of Article 10 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester County,"
sub-title "Hurlock," as amended by Chapter 812 of the Acts.
of 1912, by adding 13 new Sections thereto, to be numbered
330C, 330D, 330E, 330F, 330G, 330H, 3301, 330 J,
330K, 330L, 330M, 330N, 330 O, and follow immediately
after Section 330B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 330 of Article 10 of the Code of Public
Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Hur-
lock," as amended by Chapter 812 of the Acts of 1912, be
and the same is hereby amended by adding 13 new Sections
thereto to be numbered 330C, 330D, 330E, 330F; 330G, 330H,
330I, 330 J, 330K, 330L, 330M, 330N, 330 O, to follow
immediately after Section 330B and read as follows:

Section 330C. In each and every year the annual levy shall
be made between, the first and fifteenth days of June,

Section 330D. In each year, at least twenty days before
the general levy is made, the Commissioners of Hurlock shall
sit on three successive days, to correct assessments. They
shall give notice of said sittings by advertisement, published
before the first sitting, once a week, for three successive weeks,
in one or more newspapers published in said city. They shall
at said sittings, hear applications for a change in any assess-
ment already entered in the assessment books, and they may
in advance notify any parties to show cause why their respect-
ive assessments shall not be changed.

Section 330E. At this meeting the Clerk shall have ready
and read to the Commissioners of Hurlock a list of all new
property which he thinks should be assessed and taxed, and
the Commissioners of Hurlock shall decide as to the valuation
of said property. The Clerk shall then mail a notice to the
person whose assessment has been so increased, stating the
amount of increase in the said assessment and summoning
such person to appear before the Commissioners of Hurlock
at their next regular meeting (giving date) and show cause
why said assessment shall not stand as made. If such person
fail to appear, the said property shall be entered on the assess-
ment books, provided such person, so assessed, may appeal to
the Circuit Court for Dorchester County at any time within
15 days from the date of the regular meeting at which said