PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 149

valuation of the said assessors to the Council, which shall meet
on the first Monday in July after said assessment and remain in
session from day to day as long as may be reasonable, to hear
and determine said appeals. And shall give reasonable notice
of said meetings, and shall increase or reduce said assessment
as they may deem just; and the Council shall once a year, before
fixing and deciding upon the amount of taxes and licenses to be
assessed for the ensuing year, cause to be made out a detailed
estimate exhibiting the items of liability and expenses during
the said year and shall cause the same to be published at least
three times a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper
published in Montgomery County, and after hearing and con-
sidering objections thereto by the owners of said property in
said town, if any such shall be made, shall revise said detailed
estimate and fix and assess for the ensuing year such rate of
taxation, not exceeding fifty cents on every hundred dollars'
worth of property, as they shall deem necessary, together with
other revenues of the town, to meet said revised estimate of
liabilities and expenditures. Said revised detailed estimate
together with the new rate of taxation, shall be published twice
in a newspaper published and printed in Montgomery County,
and the adoption of the said revised detailed estimate shall
thereby be and become the appropriation of the respective
amounts for the respective purposes herein stated, and the
Council shall not audit, nor shall the Clerk draw or sign
any check in payment of any claim, unless an appropriation
therefor shall have been duly made in accordance with this
Act, and said check shall be countersigned by the Mayor of
said town. The Council shall annually prepare and publish,
not later than the first day of May in each year, a parallel
statement of the appropriation and the expenditure under
said appropriation of the funds of the town. The Council
shall also cause to be made from time to time during the said
three year periods, assessments of improvements made and of
other property not contained in the general assessment list,
and they shall make such other provisions as may in their
judgment be necessary to carry into full force and effect the
assessment herein provided for.

SEC. 366-A. The Commissioners of the County, the Board
of Public School Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs,
Constables and all other State and County officers shall have,
hold and exercise their offices in said town as heretofore,
except as qualified by the other Sections of this Act. The
County Commissioners of Montgomery County shall on or before