PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1643

stantly informed what supervisors of assessments in other parts
of the State are doing.

The supervisors shall be furnished an office at the County seat
by the County Commissioners of each County, and by the Mayor
in Baltimore City, and allowed such clerical help as the County
Commissioners or Mayor of Baltimore City, respectively, shall
determine; and the State Tax Commission shall determine, by
a general and uniform rule, what data and information, if any,
is not open for public inspection. This Act is not intended to
impose any limitation on the power of local bodies to employ
assessors.

240 The salary of the supervisors shall be paid by the sev-
eral Counties and shall be based on the agregate value of prop-
erty subject to taxation under his supervision. In those Coun-
ties where the total value of all property shall not exceed
$5,000,000, he shall receive an annual salary of $600. If the
aggregate value shall be over $5,000,000 and less than $10,-
000,000, he shall receive $800.

If over $10,000,000 and less than $20,000,000—$1,000.
If over 20,000,000 and less than 30,000,000— 1,200.
If over 30,000,000 and less than 50,000,000— 1,500.
If over 50,000,000 and less than 75,000,000— 1,800.
If over 75,000,000 and less than 100,000,000— 2,000.
And if over $100,000,000 he shall receive $2,400.
The supervisor in Baltimore City shall be paid $2,400,

Such salary shall be payable monthly and the County Com-
missioners of each County and the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore are hereby directed to raise such sum annually as will
pay said salaries, and in case the expenditures for any County
or Baltimore City have been fully computed at the time that
this Act shall take effect, then the County Commissioners of said
County or the proper officials in Baltimore City shall be re-
quired to provide in the next levy for the payment of the salary
from the date of the supervisor taking office.

241. That State Tax Commission shall adopt a seal and shall
keep a full record of its proceedings, and have the power to
make rules, orders and directions as it may deem necessary to
carry into effect the objects of this Act. It shall have power also
to provide a system for hearings on petitions filed before it, and
shall adopt such rules of proceedings, manner of taking testi-
mony and argument and such regulations in regard to notices