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tricts; the fifth shall be composed of the Seventh, Ninth, Four-
teenth and Eighteenth Election Districts; the sixth shall be
composed of the Sixth, Tenth and Sixteenth Election Dis
tricts; the seventh shall be composed of the First, Eighth and
Eleventh Election Districts; the eighth shall be composed of
the Twelfth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Election Districts,
and the ninth shall be composed of the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Election Districts of said county. Wicomico
County shall be divided into two assessment districts; the
first district shall be composed of the First, Second, Third,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Election Districts; the
second district shall be composed of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Election Dis-
tricts. Worcester County shall constitute one assessment dis-
trict.

SEC. 3. If any election district or districts, or part or
parts of the territory of any county is or are not included in
any assessment district provided in this Act, the same shall be
included in such assessment district, or respective districts
as the Governor of this State shall direct.

SEC. 4. The Governor of this State, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint before the fif-
teenth day of April, 1910, two suitable persons for each of
the aforesaid assessment districts in the several counties of
this State, who shall be designated and act as "assessors-at-
large" for such assessment districts for which they shall be re-
spectively appointed. The County Commissioners for each of
the several counties shall appoint one suitable person from
each election district in their respective counties, and each
of said persons so appointed shall act as assessor in the elec-
tion district for which he is appointed; and also shall act as
clerk to the assessors for his election district; and each of
said assessors to be appointed, either by the Governor or the
County Commissioners, shall be a property owner and a tax-
payer, and shall have resided in the county for which he shall
have been appointed for at least two years before his said ap-
pointment, and shall have adequate knowledge of the value of
property in the assessment district for which he shall be ap-
pointed. The two assessors-at-large appointed for the respect-
ive assessment districts, and also the assessor for each of said
election districts of the several counties, shall join and act
together for the assessment district of which his election dis-
trict forms a part in valuing and assessing all the property
therein required to be valued and assessed for the election dis-
trict for which he shall be appointed. But no assessor ap-
pointed for an election district shall be permitted to join
said assessors-at-large in any other election district than the