LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

certain time to be named in said notice, at which time they
may assess, add to, decrease or increase the assessment of the
owner so notified; and said commissioners shall have power and
authority to require the owner, possessor or claimant of any
property liable to assessment to give them such full and accu-
rate statement of his property as may be necessary to enable
said commissioners to ascertain the value thereof, the same
to be under the oath of such person; and if any person being
the owner, possessor or claimant of any property liable to
assessment hereunder shall fail, neglect or refuse within the
time limited by said notice to render such statement, the said
commissioners, upon their own knowledge and upon such in-
formation as they may be able to obtain with reference there-
to, shall value said property at the full cash value thereof, and
the same shall be considered as the assessment until altered
by said commissioners sitting to hear appeals and correct
errors; and the commissioners may levy a tax on the assessable
property within the corporate limits of said town not exceed-
ing one hundred cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of
assessable property.

16. The said commissioners of Aberdeen be and they are
hereby authorized, in their discretion, the assent of a majority
of the legal voters of said town voting at any election held as
hereinafter provided, having been first had and obtained, to
borrow money upon the faith and credit of the town and to
issue bonds therefor not to exceed in amount ten thousand
dollars, said bonds to be exempt from county and municipal
taxation.

17. Before the said commissioners of Aberdeen may issue
any bonds as herein provided the said commissioners shall pass
an ordinance setting forth the purpose for which such bonds
are to be issued, the amount thereof, their denomination, the
rate of interest they are to bear, and the time and manner in
which they are to be paid.

18. Any such ordinances as that required by the preceding
section shall be submitted to the legal voters of said town for
the purpose of ascertaining whether the majority of those
voting shall give their assent thereto; and the said commis-
sioners shall give notice of a special election to be held for
that purpose by publication in the Aberdeen Enterprise, or
some other paper published in said town, and if there is no
newspaper published in said town, then in some newspaper
published in Harford County, for at least twenty days before