ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 519

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 358 of Article 16 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland, title "Montgomery County, " sub-
title "Kensington, " as said section was amended by Chapter
461 of the Acts of 1920, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

358. On or before the first day of June, 1928, each
third year thereafter the Council shall appoint three assessors,
free-holders of said town, who shall, under the direction of
said council, make an assessment of all property, real, personal
and mixed, in said town, at fair cash value at public sale as
near as they may be able to determine the value of the same,
and the Council shall immediately thereupon levy a tax thereon
not exceeding 60 cents on the $100. 00 worth of assessable
property, in any one year; and all taxes so levied shall be a lien
on any and all property of the person or persons against whom
they may be levied. And any person may appeal from, the
valuation of the said assessors to the Council, which shall meet
on the first Monday in July, after said assessment, and remain
in session from day to day as long as may be reasonable, to
hear and determine said appeals, and shall give reasonable
notice of said meeting's and shall increase or reduce said assess-
ment as they may deem just; and the Council shall, once a year,
before fixing and deciding upon the amount of taxes and li-
censes to be assessed for the ensuing year, cause to be made out
a detailed estimate exhibiting the items of liability and expense
during said year, and shall cause the same to be published at
least three times, once a week for three consecutive weeks, in
a newspaper published in Montgomery County, and after hear-
ing and considering objections thereto by the owners of said
property in said town, if any such shall be made, shall revise
such detailed estimate and fix and assess for the ensuing year
such rate of taxation, not exceeding sixty (60) cents on every
$100. 00 worth of property, as they shall deem necessary, to-
gether with other revenues of the town, to meet said revised
estimate of liability and expenditures. Said revised detailed
estimate, together with the rate of taxation, shall be published
twice in a newspaper published and printed in Montgomery
County, and the adoption of said revised detailed estimate shall
thereby be and become the appropriation of the respective
amount for the purposes therein stated; and the Council shall
not audit nor shall the Clerk draw or sign any check in pay-