304 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 153

lating the time and manner of payment of said taxes, and
to provide for an early payment of the same by making
provision for the allowance of such discount as may be
necessary thereto [; and the said President and Town
Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to
make a new assessment of all the property, real and per-
sonal, in said town, in the year 1906, and once in every
ten years, or oftener, if they shall think proper; and the
President and Commissioners of said town shall appoint
three assessors to make said assessment, and said assessors
shall receive as compensation therefor the sum of ten dol-
lars apiece, making in all thirty dollars for their services,
to be paid out of the taxes of said town; and said assessors
shall, under oath, assess and value property in the town
in the same manner, and with like authority, as county
assessors; and the town bailiff shall, with the authority
given in this section, annually assess and add to the assess-
able property of said town such new or missed property
or buildings as may be brought into or erected therein;
provided, that said assessments shall not include real or
personal property situated beyond the boundaries of the
town, nor personal property only constructively within the
town, though owned by persons residing in it; and pro-
vided, further, that in assessing any of the lands within
the town which may be occupied and used as farms, or
may be a part or parts of farms, such land shall be valued
and assessed as lots of ten acres of ground with the build-
ing and improvements thereon, and shall not be assessed in
value by the number of acres therein. ]

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 314
and 317 of said Article and sub-title be and they are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved March 31, 1953.

CHAPTER 153
(Senate Bill 82)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
299 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.