An act further supplementary to an act entitled, An act for
the general valuation and assessment of property in this
State, and to provide a tax to pay the debts of the State,
passed March, session eighteen hundred and forty-one,
chapter twenty-three.
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Passed March
3, 1843.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all the counties of this State, Howard
District and the city of Baltimore, wherein collectors of
the taxes now imposed, or hereafter to be imposed by law,
have not jet been appointed, or in which appointments
shall not have been made, before the first Tuesday in April
next, or in which vacancies have occurred which shall not
have been filled up according to law at the time of the pas-
sage of this act, or which may hereafter occur, it shall be
the Levy Courts, Commissioners or the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Baltimore, as aforesaid as the
case may be, whose duty it shall be to appoint collectors
of the tax, and they are hereby required to meet at their
usual places of meeting on the first Tuesday of April next,
or as soon thereafter as may be, and on the first Tuesday
of April or as soon thereafter as may be, of each succeed-
ing year, when it shall be their duty, and they are hereby
required without delay, to appoint collectors for their re-
spective counties, district and city aforesaid, for the collec-
tion of taxes which shall have been then or may thereafter
be levied for the current year, and for so much of the said
taxes due for former years as shall not be in the hands of
collectors duly appointed and qualified for collection.
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Collectors to
he appointed.
Manner, &c.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Levy Courts,
commissioners or Mayor and City Council of Baltimore as
aforesaid, be and they are hereby authorized and required,
if in their judgment it he necessary, to insure a prompt
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Counties and
districts to be
divided if ne-
cessary, &c.
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