HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 433

desire to become incorporated, is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That there shall be
appointed by this Mayor and Common Council three as-
sessors, who shall constitute the Board of Assessors and
shall serve six years, except that the first board so ap-
pointed shall have one member appointed for two years,
one member appointed for four years and one member ap-
pointed for six years, and thereafter one assessor shall be
appointed every two years to serve for 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 a list of
all assessable 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 practicable 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 upon the property so assessed, the
Mayor and Common Council must advertise at least two suc-
cessive 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 said adver-
tisement 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 said 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 period for 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 thirty cents
per one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation. The
Treasurer, upon receiving assessment and rate of taxation
shall give notice by posting in public places or by advertis-
ing in some newspaper once, that the said taxes are due and
payable and will be received by him on certain days and at
a certain place to be named in said notice or notices. All
taxes are due and payable on the first day of July in each
and every year and if not paid on or before the first day
of July shall bear interest at the rate of one per centum
per month until paid and if not paid on or before the first
day of January next following, the treasurer shall make up
a list of the unpaid taxes, and shall advertise the same in
some newspaper published in Prince George's County, once