1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 203.

or its supplements, on or before the first Monday in Au-
gust in each and every year after the passage of this act,
it shall be the duty of the clerks of the levy courts, or
commissioners, or the register of the city of Baltimore,

Give notice to
the Governor.

to give notice thereof to the Governor, within twenty
days after such failure, and thereupon it shall be the duty
of the Governor to appoint a tax board, as provided by
the twelfth section of the act passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter two hun-
dred and eight, which board shall be clothed with the
powers and entitled to the compensation by the said act
prescribed, and in case the said clerks or register shall

Fail or refuse
to comply.

fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this sec-
tion, or any other duty imposed upon them by this act,
the clerk or register so failing or refusing, shall forfeit
and pay the sum of one thousand dollars, for the use of
this State, to be recovered either by indictment in the
proper county, district, or city court, or by action of debt,
brought in the name of the State, by the Attorney Gen-
eral, or his proper deputy, upon the requisition of the
Governor.

Duty of clerks
of levy courts,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the clerks of the levy courts, of the commissioners of
the tax and the register of the city of Baltimore, to give
notice to the Governor within the period aforesaid, under
the penalty aforesaid, of the actual imposition or levy of
the tax aforesaid, and in case the Governor shall not re-
ceive notice of such levy by the county, district, or city
authorities, as the case may be, by the first Monday in
September, in each and every year after the passage of

Appoint tax
boards.

this act, then it shall be the duty of the Governor, and
he is hereby authorised and required, to appoint tax
boards as aforesaid, as in the preceding section is direct-
ed.

Fail or refuse
to deliver as-
sessment books.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if the commissioners
of the tax, the justices of the levy courts, the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or the clerks or register of
these authorities, shall fail or refuse to deliver, to the
duly appointed collectors of the State taxes, the assess-
ment books; or if they shall in any other way, impede,
hinder or delay the said collectors in the discharge of
their duty, the said commissioners, justices, Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, and the clerks and register as
aforesaid, shall be, each individual, severally liable to in-

Liable to in-
dictment.

dictment in the county, district, or city court of Balti-
more, and upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit end pay
the sum of one thousand dollars each for the use of this