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more may levy and pay a sum of money each year toward the cost
of tuition, board, books and other expenses for such number of stu-
dents of medicine AND DENTISTRY from the respective political
subdivisions as may be selected and appointed from time to time by
the board of county commissioners, county council, or Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, acting through its Board of Estimates.
Any such appointment shall not be held by the same student for more
than four years. Any student receiving such an appointment shall
give bond to the board of county commissioners, county council, or
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting through its Board of
Estimates, with such security as may be approved thereby, that he
will reside and practice medicine within the particular political sub-
division for not less than five years after completing his medical OR
DENTAL education.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 252
(Senate Bill 92)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 255 (a)
of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Revenue and Taxes", subtitle "Appeals", changing in Bal-
timore City the date within which an application for revaluation
or reclassification as to an existing or proposed assessment of
property must be made.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 255 (a) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes", subtitle "Appeals",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

255.

(a) Before initial assessing authority. With respect to any prop-
erty assessed locally, any taxpayer, or city, or the Attorney General
or Department may demand a hearing before the supervisor of as-
sessments or the director of the department of assessments of Bal-
timore City, as the case may be, or their respectively designated
representatives, as to the assessment of any property or any unit
of tax value, or as to the increase, reduction, or abatement of any
such assessment, or as to the classification thereof, for the next en-
suing year. Except as provided in Section 29 (f) of this article, no
demand for a hearing shall be granted under this subsection unless
answer or protest to a notice as to assessments was made, in the
counties with the supervisor of assessments, or in Baltimore City
with the department of assessments, within twenty days from the
date of such notice, or unless application for revaluation or reclassi-
fication as to an existing or proposed assessment was made in the
counties with the supervisor of assessments before the date of
finality for the taxable year in question, or in Baltimore City with