1836.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 129.

complaint, and on a general replication filed thereto, a
commission in chief shall have issued to take testimony
thereon, and if in the same case an interlocutory decree
shall hare been or shall be entered against any other
defendant for want of an appearance or answer, and a
commission ex parte directed to be issued, it shall not
be necessary in such case for the complainant to have
such commission ex parte issued and executed, but he

Or optional

shall be at liberty to take such testimony under the
commission in chief, as may be necessary to sustain his
case against said defaulting defendant; and all testimo-
ny taken under any commission in chief issued as afore-
said shall be admissible in evidence, and have like ef-
fect against such defaulting defendant as if the same
was taken under a commission ex parte issued under
an interlocutory decree against such defendant.

CHAPTER 129.

Passed Mar. 6,
1837.

An act to authorise the Commissioners of the Tax of Fre-
derick county to appoint an assessor or assessors to
value certain property in Frederick county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by the erection of Carroll county, the
lands of several persons are divided by the divisional
line of Carroll and Frederick counties, a'nd parts
thereof are now situate in Frederick county and other
parts thereof in Carroll county; and -whereas, it is de-
sirable for the purpose of county levies, that the value
of the whole property of the county shall be certainly
known :— Therefore,

Valuation di-
rected

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of the tax of Frederick county
be and they are hereby authorised and directed, as soon
as is practicable after the passage of this act, to ap-
point an assessor or assessors, to value all the said
parts of the said lands, situate in Frederick county,
and mentioned in the preamble of this act; and that the
said assessor or assessors shall comply with all the
requisitions, and shall be subjected to all the penalties
of the act passed at November session, eighteen hun-
dred and twelve, chapter one hundred and ninety-one,
relating to assessors, .and not inconsistent herewith,