1406 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 583

ager shall be on the basis of executive and administrative
ability and of the training and experience of such appointees
in the work which they are to perform, and no discrimination
shall be made because of political or religious opinions or
affiliations. All such appointments shall be without definite
term unless for provisional, temporary or emergency service.
All officers and employees, including the Town Solicitor, may
be removed by the Town Manager. The Council may appoint
a committee of three disinterested persons to hear or review
any individual grievance of any regular employee dismissed
or otherwise aggrieved by action of the Town Manager. Such
committee shall be advisory in nature only, and the decision
of the Manager shall be final in all cases, and not reviewable
in any Court or body notwithstanding any previous Act of
the General Assembly to the contrary.

673. (Qualifications and Duties of Town Solicitor. ) The
Town Solicitor shall be appointed by the Town Manager with
the consent of the Council and the Town Manager may remove
him at will without notice. His compensation shall be fixed
by the Council. He shall be an attorney at law who shall
have been admitted to practice before the Maryland Bar, but
need not be a resident of Greenbelt. He shall be the chief
legal adviser of and attorney for the town and all offices thereof
in matters relating to their official powers and duties. It
shall be his duty to perform all services incident to his office;
to attend meetings of the Council when requested by the
Town Manager, to give advice in writing, when so requested,
to the Council or the Town Manager; to prosecute or defend,
as the case may be, all suits or cases to which the town may
be a party; to prosecute for all offenses against the ordinances
of the town and for such offenses against the laws of the State
as may be required of him by law; to prepare all contracts,
bonds and other instruments in writing in which the town
is concerned, and to endorse on each his approval of the form
and correctness thereof; and to perform such other duties
of a legal nature as the Council may by ordinance require.

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5. (Tax Boll. ) Each year as soon after the date of finality
as practicable and before taxes become due and payable in
each year, the Town Treasurer shall prepare the tax roll
showing the assessed valuation of all real or personal property
subject to taxation in the Town of Greenbelt; such tax roll
shall contain a full list of all such real estate and improve-
ments thereon as the same has been valued and assessed, with
the owners thereof, the location and description of each piece
or parcel of ground so assessed and valued, and shall contain