1056                             Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 465

help and expense as the County Commissioners, and the County
Council of Baltimore County, and the County Executive and County
Council of Montgomery County, and the mayor and city council of
Baltimore shall respectively determine. They shall confer frequently
with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, submitting
questions for determination to that department and shall receive and
carry out instructions given by the department or the chief super-
visor of assessments appointed by the department for their guidance
in supervising the valuation and assessment of real and personal
property; they shall likewise keep constantly informed of the method
of work pursued by other supervisors of assessments. After July 1,
1961, supervisors of assessments shall not hold their position after
they have attained the age of seventy (70) years, except that this
shall not apply to the supervisor of assessments of Baltimore County
until and after December 1,1967.

237.

(h) Submission of list of applicants to State Department of
Assessments and Taxation; examination and grading; appointment;
filling vacancies.—The County Commissioners or County Council
shall submit to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation,
from the applicants for each position to be filled, a list of not less than
three applicants for each position, provided, however, that in Mont-
gomery County the list of applicants shall be submitted by the
County Executive with the approval of the County Council. The
State Department of Assessments and Taxation shall interview,
examine and grade said applicants, in order to determine their rela-
tive qualifications for the position or positions to be filled, and shall
certify the list of applicants and their respective grades to the County
Commissioners or County Council, and the County Executive of
Montgomery County, who shall appoint an assessor (by whatever
title designated) for each position from the said list, provided, how-
ever, that all appointments by the County Executive of Montgomery
County shall be subject to the confirmation of the County Council.
In the event of the resignation, death or removal of any assessor, the
vacancy shall be filled by the County Commissioners or County Coun-
cil and the County Executive of Montgomery County in the manner
hereinbefore set forth, within 60 days from the date when the
vacancy occurs. The annual salaries of the county assessors and
all other expenses incident to local assessment shall be levied for
and paid by the several boards of County Commissioners and County
Councils. After July 1, 1961 assessors (by whatever title designated)
shall not hold their positions after they have attained the age of
seventy (70) years.

248.

The County Commissioners of each county are hereby authorized
and empowered (but are not required) to create, by resolution, an
Appeal Tax Court consisting of three members to be appointed by the
County Commissioners for terms of three years, so arranged that the
term of office of one of said members shall expire on June 1st
in each year. One of said members shall be designated by the
County Commissioners as chairman, and each of said members shall
receive compensation as may be provided by the County Commis-
sioners. The members of an Appeal Tax Court shall be removable by