256 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

compensation for the services rendered said board of control
and review, in addition to the salary received as counsel to
said County Commissioners. The compensation of said asses-
sors, County Commissioners in the several counties acting as
a board of control and review, their clerks and counsel, shall
be paid by the counties in which their duties are respectively
performed. The accounts for services rendered by the asses-
sors, clerks and counsel in the several counties shall be ap-
proved by the County Commissioners for such counties before
the same are paid.

SEC. 6. The Governor of this State shall have power to
remove at any time for cause any assessor, and to appoint
another person or other persons, in case there be more than
one such removal, duly qualified, to perform the duties of said
office or offices in the place of the person or persons so removed
from office; and the person or persons so appointed shall qual-
ify in the same manner as if he or they had been originally
appointed under this Act; and the County Commissioners
shall exercise similar powers of removal and appointment of
any assessors or clerks by them appointed; and any new ap-
pointees by them made to supply vacancies thus made shall
qualify in the same manner as if he or they had been origi-
nally appointed under this Act; and the power to appoint
either by the Governor or County Commissioners shall exist
to fill vacancies, however caused.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That the respective boards of
control and review, and every clerk appointed under the pro-
vision of this Act, shall, in addition to the oath prescribed by
the Constitution, before he enters upon the duties of said
office of assessor, member of the board of control and review
or clerk, take the following oath or affirmation before some
person authorized by law to administer an oath, to wit: "I,
————————, do swear (or solemnly and sincerely and truly
declare and affirm) that as (naming the county or assessment
district) for which he is appointed assessor or as a member
of a board of control and review, naming the county or dis-
trict, or as a clerk to the board of control and review for
(naming the county or district), T will, to the best of my skill
and judgement, execute the duties of said office diligently and
faithfully, according to the direction of this Act. under which
T am appointed, providing for the general valuation and as-
sessment of property in all the counties of this State, without
favor, affection or partiality"; which said oath or affirmation,
properly attested by a Justice of the Peace, or other competent
person before whom the same shall have been taken, shall be
filed by the person taking the same within ten days after his
appointment, in the office of the County Commissioners of