The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-04-20
LAW OF MARYLAND.

A FURTHER supplement to an actrassed
at March Session, eighteen hundred and
forty one, chapter twenty three, entitled
al act for the general valuation and as
seSsment Of property in this State, and
To provide 4 tax to pay tho debts CT the
4 State.
| WHEREAS it has been represented to
this General Assembly that several Of the
local authorities in this State have reduced
the assessed value Of the property direct
ed 10 be assessed by the act, TO which this
rs further Supplement- contrary to the
spirit and true intent and meaning of the
said original act:
For remcd, whereof
SECT. |. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, that all deduc-
tons and attachments in the value of pro.
perry assessed, under the said original act,
made by the commissioners, the Levy
Courts, and the Appeal Tax Court, in the
city of Baltimore, subsequently to the en-
plralion of twenty days ailcr the second
Monday in November next after the pas
sage of the said original act, as provided
iDr by the twenty fourth section thereof,
except as hereinafter provided, be, and the
same are hereby declared illegal, and con
trary to the intent and meaning Of said
original act.
SECT. , And be it enacted, that no de-
duction or abatement in the amount, for
which any person or taxable may have
been assessed, shall be allowed, if made
after the period mentioned IN the, preced
ing section; unless such person or taxable
| shall have alicncd, transferred, or lost the
property proposed to he deducted as pro-
vided for in the thirty -cghlh aud thirty
ninth sections of said original act and
hen only in the mode and manner, and
! upon the proof therein prescribed; or I'M
less such deduction or abatement shall
have been made in conformity with the
opinion Of the Court of Appeals, as drec-
ted by the thirty-lour!h section of said
original act.
SECT. 3. And be itenactod, that it shall
be the duty of the Levy Courts, and COM
missioners, as the case may be, of the Sc
veal counties, and of Howard District,
and of the May or and city council of Balti-
more, in laying and imposing the tax, un-
der the provisions of the said original act,
and It's supplements, for the year eighteen
hundred and forty four, and for all future
years to be governed by the assessment and
valuation made by the assessors under the
orgina! act, as such assessment and valu-
alton may have been corrected and ADJUST
ed, agrccably to the provisions of the
twenty-lourlh, lhirty-Iourth, thirty. eighth
and lhrly-ninlh sections OF said original
act, and according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, as herein and hereby de-
clared.
By the House of Delegates, BY The Senate.
March Oh, lSl4. March 9th, 1874.
This engross- This engross-
Fed Bill, the ORR ed Bill the ORR
4 ginal of which - ginal Of which
passed the GREAT passed the
House of Del Senate the 9Th
egaies the 9th ! l', day OF March
dav of March, 1914, was this
1914, was this day read and
day read aud assented to.
assented to.
By order, By order,
GEO G. BREWER, JOS. II. NICHOLSON
Clerk. Clerk.
FRANCIS THOMAS.
| STATE OF MARYLAND. TO WIT:
Be it REMEMBERED, and we hereby certify
that the aforegoing is true copy OF tho
act entitled "a further supplement to t''
act passed at March session eighteen
hundred and folty one, chapter twenty
T. lhree, entitled an act Cor tAe general waltz
4 alton and assessment Of property IN thu
/ State, and to provide a TAX 10 pay the dcot
of the State" which passed the Genera
Assembly of Maryland at Dccmber session
one thousand eight hIndred aud forty