692                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 491

120.    The County Commissioners of Kent County shall, thirty
days before making their annual levy ask for bids for printing and
publishing all such matters as they may be required by law to cause
to be published in Kent County, Maryland, in two newspapers,
except the public local laws which may be passed by the General
Assembly of Maryland; such notice asking for bids for said printing
shall run for two consecutive issues and shall state the date and hour
which bids for such printing will be opened; and the County Com-
missioners shall award the contract for such printing for a period
of one year, to two or more responsible newspapers making the
lowest bids for such printing, provided such contract shall not allow
for such printing a sum exceeding in the aggregate [One] Two
Thousand Dollars. In the event there is only one newspaper pub-
lished in Kent County the County Commissioners are then not
required to ask for bids as otherwise required in this section.

121.    If the said County Commissioners shall not succeed in effect-
ing said contract with any two papers published in Kent County,
then they are hereby authorized to contract with any paper or
papers published in said county, or with any person elsewhere to do
the work aforesaid, in handbill or pamphlet form, for a sum not
exceeding in the aggregate the sum of [one] two thousand dollars
as aforesaid.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 491
(Senate Bill 4)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 14 (c) of
Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Supplement),
title "Revenue and Taxes," subtitle "Method of Assessment,"
amending the assessment laws in order to provide for the time
of making assessments on both personal and real property.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 14 (c) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes," subtitle
"Method of Assessment," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

14.

(c) Personal property shall be assessed annually. Any assess-
ment of real property existing as of June 1, 1929, or thereafter
made, shall continue in force from year to year until changed pur-
suant to the provisions of this article.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.