258 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ter upon the performance of their respective dutis; and the
assessors so assembled in the respective localities as afore-
said shall primarily proceed to consider their respective duties
under this Act, and the instructions, of the State Tax Com-
missioner, and the forms prepared for their use, to the end
that their respective duties may be uniformly performed and
discharged. The assessors at large and the district assessors
of each assessment district in the several counties shall there-
after assemble at the place in such counties at which the Cir-
cuit Court for such county is usually held, on the said first
Tuesday in May, in the year nineteen hundred and ten, and
proceed to the performance of their duties under this Act for
said counties. In assessing the property in each election dis-
trict of such counties, the said assessors at large shall call
to their assistance and act jointly with the assessor appointed
for each election district; but nothing herein shall be so con-
strued as to permit any election district assessor to assess or
join in assessing any property outside of the district for which
he may be appointed as aforesaid, and any district assessor
shall only be paid for the time he may be engaged in assessing
the property in the district for which he shall be appointed.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the said assessors, appoint-
ed under the provisions of this Act, immediately upon enter-
ing upon the performance of their duties, to deliver or cause
to be delivered as far as practicable, or to send by mail to
each and every person in their assessment district who shall
own any real or personal property subject to taxation under
the laws of this State, the forms of schedules and interroga-
tories for real and personal property provided in Section 9 of
this Act, together with the notice to said person or persons
requiring him or her to have filled out and ready to file with
said assessors within twenty days after the date of the re-
ceipts or the mailing of such schedules or interrogatories, a
complete return upon said schedule of all the real and personal
property owned by said person or persons and subject to taxa-
tion under the provisions of this Act. Every taxable person
making such schedule shall specify as far as may be practi-
cable the name or names of the tracts or parcels of land so
described, and the number of acres or quantity of lands in
each, and the value per acre, if in the counties; and such other
definite description as shall make the same easily identified, re-
ferring if possible to the title papers, equity proceedings and
other data connected therewith; he shall value the improve-
ments upon the respective tracts or parcels of real estate in
the said several counties so by him prepared in describing
any lot or parcel of ground in any city or developed section,
or in course of development in any county in this State; the