1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 169.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That where any land, in any
school district in said county, may become charged for the

When no personal

property can be

found lands may

be charged

payment of any school tax, and the collector of such tax
can find no personal property in said district liable for, or
chargeable with, the payment of the same, the said collector
shall be and he is hereby directed and required, to return
to the trustees of said district, at such time or times as said
trustees shall require or direct, a list of such lands, and the
amount of taxes thereon respectively due, and the names
of the persons respectively chargeable with the payment of
the same; and the said trustees shall thereupon have and
exercise, in relation to said lands, all the powers which
might or could be exercised by the commissioners of the
tax of any county in this stale, in like cases, in virtue of
the act for the more effectual collection of the county
charges in the several counties in this state, passed at No-
vember session seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, chap-
ter ninety; and the collector of said school district shall
have the same powers and authority, and be subject to the
same rules, regulations and duties, in the premises, as by
law appertain to the office of the collector of the county

Acts declared pub-

lic and remedial

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid act for the

this state, and this act, be and the same are hereby declar-
ed to be, public and remedial acts, and shall be construed
by all courts of justice according to the equity thereof, and
no proceedings of the inhabitants, or of the trustees of any
school district, shall be set aside or adjudged to be void, for
defect of form, or for any irregularity therein, so as the re-
quisitions of said acts are substantially complied with.

Duty of clerk to

the commissioners

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the clerks to the commis-
sioners for Anne-Arundel county, shall annually, without
fee or reward, make out for the "trustees of primary school
district in said county, or such of them as shall apply for
the same, copies from the assessment books of said county
of all the assessable property in said district or districts.

Taxes voted at
meeting in Anna-
polis to be levied
agreeable to assess-
ment list

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That all taxes voted, or to
be voted, at any primary school meeting, held or to
be held in the primary school district composed of the
city of Annapolis, shall be levied agreeably to the assess-
ment list of said city; and as often as a tax shall be
voted by any primary school meeting in said city, and at
the requisition of the trustees, the clerks of said city shall,
without fee or reward, furnish a copy of the said assess-
ment list to said trustees; and the said trustees shall have
and exercise the same powers and process for receiving of
taxes, which shall be assessed to property held by non-re-
sidents, as are now had and exercised by the mayor, re-