ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 875

corporate the town of Riverdale, in Prince George's County,
Maryland, and to fix the town limits thereof, define the per-
sons qualified to vote therein, to provide for and regulate the
election and appointment of officers therefor and the terms
and qualifications of such officers, to define the method of
government thereof, to define the corporate powers and to
provide an election to determine whether or not the citizens
thereof desire to become incorporated."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 10 of Chapter 731 of the Acts of 1920, en-
titled "An Act to incorporate the town of Riverdale, in Prince
George's County, Maryland, and to fix the town limits thereof,
define the persons qualified to vote therein, to provide for and
regulate the election and appointment of officers thereof and
the terms and qualifications of such officers, to define the
method of government thereof, to define the corporate powers
and to provide an election to determine whether or not the
citizens thereof desire to become incorporated."

Section 10. And be it further enacted, That there shall be
appointed by the Mayor and Common Council three assessors,
who shall constitute the Board of Assessors and shall serve six
years, except that the first board so appointed shall have one
member appointed for two years, one member appointed for
four years and one member appointed for six years, and there-
after one assessor shall be appointed every two years to serve
six years. Said assessors shall possess the qualification re-
quired of the Mayor of said town. The said Board of Asses-
sors shall every three years on the first day of June make up a
list of all assessable real and personal property, except house-
hold goods as provided by Chapter 393 of the Acts of 1916
shall be exempt, and transmit the same to the Mayor and Com-
mon Council. The said Mayor and Common Council shall as
soon thereafter as may be practical fix the annual rate of said
town, based upon the return of said assessors. Before said
assessment shall be valid or such taxes become a lien on the
property so assessed, the Mayor and Common Council must
advertise at least two successive times in some newspaper pub-
lished in Prince George's County that said assessments are
open for public inspection at a time and place to be named in
said advertisement and that on a day herein named and at a
place designated the said Mayor and Common Council will
hear appeals from said assessments, and on the day and in the
place named in such advertisement the Mayor and Common