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the mailing of such notice, to assess to such person said prop-
erty appearing by said return to belong to such person, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the expira-
tion of ten days from the date of such notice; and in the event
no good cause to the contrary be shown within the time limit
by such notice, the County Commissioners shall proceed to
assess such property to the persons appearing by said returns
to be the owners thereof at the valuation placed thereon by
such assessor. That the assessor so appointed shall have an
office in the Court House at Rockville and shall attend same
each and every day and shall perform such other duties in
relation to the duties of his office as may be required by the
County Commissioners, That said assessor may be removed
from office with or without cause or notice by the County Com-
missioners, who are authorized and empowered to appoint his
successor for the unexpired term.

That said County Commissioners shall annually levy and
pay to said assessor a salary not to exceed the sum of eighteen
hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly.

SEC. 2. That all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And he it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the loth day of June, A. D. 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 259.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the County Com-
missioners of Montgomery County to appoint three or more,
not exceeding six, additional constables for Montgomery
County at large on the first Tuesday of July, in the year
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, for a term of two years
from the date of the appointment, and to provide rules and
regulations governing the duties of said constables and pro-
viding for their compensation and the expenses of equip-
ment, said constables to be known and designated as "Mont-
gomery County Police."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint three or more,