Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-04-13

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enpted from fanatics. In eaek county
there il . Board Of Coatrol sd Re
view, consisting Of three member, vhs
shall have clerk and each Assessment
District has three Assessors. Thn (St.
Mary's) county j. divided into tvs L.
sessment Districts, the1st, 9nd and Sd
election distsirts constituting the LIST
Assessment district, and the lth 5tb,
9Th and 9TH election districts coDstitu-
ting the End. The ray of all oNicers
10 - a day, and the whole number Of
assessors is 22s, members of boards 80,
clerks33-total345 officers. The Asses
sors have not yet been appointed They
are required to complete their assess
ments By the second Tuesd y Of Sep
TENDER next, though the Governor has
power to extend the time for good cause
shown. The boards Of control shall
meet on the first Tuesday Of SePtem-
Der, and shall continue in session daily
toconsider, revise and correct the returns
Of the assessors and determine com.
plants upon appeals, and shall return
the complete corrected assessment lists
by the 3lst day of December, 1876, un.
less the time be extended for good cause
by Governor. And any person who
feels himself aggrieved BY the valuation
of the assessment, or that the property
is not owned by him, or is exempt from
taxation, has his right of appeal to the
Circuit Court, which shall determine
the question raised, and if it be decid-
ed that the valuation il erroneous or
that the property ought not to be as
sessed, the same will be struck from
the list.
Section l. BE It enacted by the Gem
ernl Assembly Of Maryland, That all in
terests, shares or proportions in all
ships or other vessels, whether in or
out Of port, owned By residents of this
State; all shares of stock or shares in
any bank, State or National, or in any
any company or corporation incOr-
porated by or located in, or doing
business in this State, whether owned
in this State or elsew here, all shares Of
stock or shares in any hank, State or
or in any company or corpo-
ration Incorporated by or located in
aud doing business in any other State
or in any Territory or country, owned
by residents of this State all bonds
made BY any corporation or by any
other State or by any Territory belong
ing to residents Of this State; all in-
vestments in securities or stocks of any
other State, Territory or country; allin-
vestments in private securities Of any
kind, nature and description, belonging
to residents of this State, except mort
cages upon property in this State and
the mortgage debts respectively secured
thereon; and all property of every kind,
nature and description within this State
shall he liable to valuation, assessment
and taxation except as provided in the
next ensuing section Of the act.
Section 2. And be Il enacted, That the
property is expressly exempt
ed from State, county or municipal tax
alton; Property belonging to the Uni
ted States or to this State or to any
county or incorporated city or town in
this State; houses or buildings used ex-
for public worship. and the
furniture contained therein, and the
ground which the said houses or build
ings SO exclusively used for public wor-
ship shah actually cover; graveyards.
paving no dividends and
burying grounds set apart for the use
of any family, belonging to any church
or congregation; the crop or produce of
any land i'm this State in the hands ofthe
producer or his agent; provisions kept
family of the person to whom the same
shall belong; the working tools of me-
chanics and manufacturers moved, or
worked exclusively by hand; wearing
apparel of every description; fish while
in the possession of the fisherman EN-.
ployed in catching, sailing, and packing
the same, while they remain in their
possession, or in that of their agents
unsold; hospitals or asylums, charita-
bic or benevolent institutions, SO Tar as
used for the benefit of the INDECENT and
afflicted, and the ground which the
used rs such hospitals, asy-
lums, charitable or benevolent inssitu-
tons shall actually cover, and the equip
ments owned by such corporations or
institutions. All other property in this
State of every kind, nature and descrip.
tion whatsoever shall 10 liable to valu-
alton, assessment and taxation, and all
acts or parts of acts exempting any
other property except that exempted by
this set from valuation, assessment or
taxation for State. county or municipal
purposes. which can be repealed BY this
General Assembly, are, TO the extent
Of such exemption, whenever or how.
ever the same has been heretofore
granted, hereby expressly declared to
be repealed to the extent Of said ex-
emption as aforesaid, and to be hereslf-
Ter Of no fore or effect in granting such
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