ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 97

cept that the first board so appointed shall have one member ap-
pointed for two years, one member appointed for four years
and one member appointed for six years, and thereafter one
assessor shall be appointed every two years to serve six years.
Said assessors shall possess the qualifications required of the
Mayor of said town. The said Board of Assessors shall every
three years on the first day of June make up a list of all assess-
able real property, and transmit the same to the Mayor and
Common 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 the said assessors. Be-
fore 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
published in Prince George's County that said assessments are
open for public inspection at a time and place to be named in
in said advertisement and that on a day therein 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
Council shall sit for the purpose of hearing appeals from said
board of assessors, and shall upon the conclusion of said hear-
ing or hearings, alter, amend or ratify the said assessments and
transmit the same with a certificate of the rate of taxes to
the treasurer of said town, said rate of taxation not at any time
to exceed twenty-five cents per one hundred dollars of the as-
sessed valuation. Provided, however, that in the year 1924 only,
the Mayor and Common Council shall have the right and power
to levy an additional assessment of not exceeding thirty cents
per one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation and the pro-
ceeds of such additional assessment shall be used to pay the cost
of fire prevention equipment for said Town of Riverdale, and
and provided further that said Mayor and Common Council
shall have the right, authority and power annually thereafter
to levy an additional assessment at a rate not exceeding five
cents per one hundred dollars for the purpose of maintaining
such fire prevention equipment, said rate of five cents per one
hundred dollars to be in addition to twenty-five cents per one
hundred dollars hereinbefore referred to. The treasurer, upon
receiving assessment and rate of taxation, shall give notice by
posting in public places or by advertising in some newspaper
once, that the said taxes are due and payable and will be re-
ceived by him on certain days and at a certain place to be named
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