HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1039

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary
land, That Section 648 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County",
sub-title "Westernport", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, and that two new sections be and
they are hereby added to said Article, said new sections to be
known as Sections 642A and 651A, to follow immediately
after Sections 642 and 651, respectively, of said Article, and
all to read as follows:

642A. At the first meeting of the Mayor and Commis-
sioners in April of each year they shall set the amount of the
salary to be paid during the year to the Mayor and each Com-
missioner, which salaries so set shall not exceed the sum of
$500. 00 to the Mayor and $100. 00 to each Commissioner, ex-
cepting whenever any Commissioner is designated as Treasurer
of the town he may be paid an additional sum, not exceeding
|50. 00 for his services as such.

648. The Mayor and Commissioners shall have during the
month of May in each year power to levy an equal tax on the
property within the limits of said town, of which they may
have a situs there by reason of the residence of the owner
therein, to such an amount each year, not exceeding the
sum of eighty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of
property, as may be deemed necessary for the government of
said town, which said taxes so levied and assessed shall be
collected promptly by the clerk of said town and by the clerk
paid over as collected at the end of each and every month
to the treasurer of said town appointed as such by the Mayor
and Commissioners; and the said taxes shall be a lien from
the time of levy, against the property assessed and enforceable
and collected by the clerk in the same manner as the collector
of public county taxes can collect such taxes. All such taxes
levied as aforesaid shall be due and demandable on the first day
of September of the year levied and thereafter until paid shall
bear interest at six per centum per annum, but if paid on or
before June 1 a discount of 3 per cent, shall be allowed and if
paid on or before July 1 a discount of two per cent, shall be
allowed and if paid on or before August 1 a discount of 1
per cent, shall be allowed, and the said Mayor and Commis-
sioners shall fix the amount of bond, its covering and obliga-
tions to be given by the clerk, his rate of compensation and by
ordinance prescribe his duties as well as the duties of the
Town Treasurer. And the said Mayor and Commissioners shall
accept for said assessment purposes the value placed upon the
property within said town for State and county taxation.