PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1847.

missioners or appeal tax court, as the case may be, to
make him or her an allowance or deduction on account
of the sale, transfer, alienation, loss, destruction or re-
moval of any properly, or the collection or payment of
any public or private security for money, it shall be
the duty of the said levy court, commissioners or
appeal tax court to interrogate such person on oath it
reference to the said property or security and the dis-
posal of the same, and especially to require him or her
to whom said property has been sold or transferred the
amount of the purchase money or the money collected
and paid, and how the same lias been invested, and it
shall also be the duly of said levy courts, commissioners
or appeal tax court to interrogate the said person on
oath in reference to any acquisitions or investments
made by the said person and not already assessed, and
the amount of all such acquisitions and instruments, in
whatever description of security shall, be added to the
assessable property of the person so applying and
charged accordingly, and if the said person refuse to an-
swer the interrogatories proposed as aforesaid no al-
lowance or deduction shall be made on his or her
assessment.

CHAP. 266.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the powers and
duties of collectors and deputy collectors under the
forty-third section of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, and the act of December session eighteen
hundred and forty-one, chapter one hundred and six-
teen, section six, are hereby declared to extend to the
valuation and assessment of all property which may
have been created, acquired or accumulated since the
original valuation under the act to which this is a sup-
plement, or which may be hereafter created, acquired or
accumulated, and of all buildings, improvements and
works erected or made since said original valuation, or
which may hereafter be erected or made, and the levy
courts and commissioners of the several counties and
Howard district are hereby authorised to allow to the
said collectors such compensation as they may deem
proper lor the performance of their duties as assessors,
to be levied with other county charges.

Duties of the
collectors.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That every collector
and deputy collector before proceeding to execute the

duties imposed upon him by law, shall take the fol-
lowing oath or affirmation, as the case may be, to wit:
I, collector or deputy collector of do swear
or affirm, as the case may be, that I will well and truly
execute the duties imposed upon me by the act for the

Oath of col-
lector.