ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 487
CHAPTER 275.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County to appoint two capable
persons as assessors of real, personal and mixed property
in Anne Arundel County and fixing their duties and com-
pensation and term of office.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland^ That the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to
appoint two capable persons as assessors of real, personal
and mixed property in Anne Arundel County.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted further, That the County Com-
missioners shall on the first Tuesday in the month of July
in the year 1927 appoint two capable persons to be assessors
of said county for a term of four years from the date of their
appointment, and every four years thereafter appoint two
capable persons to be assessors of said county, whose duty
it shall be by all lawful means to inform themselves of all
property of whatsoever nature, including stocks and bonds
and other instruments created or acquired in said county
which is not included in the list of assessments and shall
value the same and make returns of such valuations verified
by affidavit giving the names of the reputed owners of said
property, together with their postoffice addresses and the
description and value as fixed by them of such property to
the County Commissioners, and it shall be the duty of said
assessors to mail to the postoffice addresses of each person as
shown by said return notice warning such person of the in-
tention of the County Commissioners after ten days from
the date of such notice, which date shall be the mailing of
such notice, to assess to such person said property appearing
by said return to belong to such person, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or before the expiration of ten
days from the date of such notice; and in the event no good
cause to the contrary be shown within the time limited by such
notice, the County Commissioners shall proceed to assess such
property to the persons appearing by said returns to be the own-
ers thereof at the valuation placed thereon by such assessor.
That the assessors so appointed shall have an office in the
Court House at Annapolis and shall attend same each and
every day and shall perform such other duties in relation