T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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lars, and whereas, in eighteen hundred and fifty
four the aforesaid tract of land was sold by the trus-
tee of Tidball's heirs to the Hon. Thomas Perry of
said county, for the sum of twenty five hundred
dollars, and again in the same year by the said
Perry to John Everett, of said county, who now
holds the said property and is paying taxes upon
the sum of fifty eight hundred dollars, and whereas,
the meeting of the county commissioners of said
county to hear and determine appeals upon the val-
uation and assessment of real estate had passed be-
fore the aforesaid Everett purchased and became
the owner of the said real estate, and whereas, the
county commissioners now refuse to act in the mat-
ter without authority of the General Assembly of
Maryland, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the county commissioners of Al-
legany county, at any term of their court after the
passage of this act, may take into consideration, hear,
and determine, the appeal of John Everett upon the
assessment and valuation of the said piece and parcel
of land containing four hundred and fifty four and one
fourth acres called "Clement," and known as the
property of Tidball's heirs in said county, as fully as
if the appeal had been made at the proper term of
said court.

May hear the
appeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said com-
missioners may in their discretion refund to the
said Everett, any money that he may have paid du-
ring the years eighteen hundred and fifty four and
eighteen hundred and fifty five, in consequence of ex-
cessive valuation and assessment of the aforesaid
piece or parcel of land by the late assessors of real es-
tate for said county.

Discretionary.