The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-12
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subject 10 removal at tne pleasure OF SAID Board.
Each Board of Control and Review appointed
for the City of Baltimore shall have the right
10 appoint two clerks to said Board, who shall
each receive for each day of actual service, as
such clerk, the sum of four dollars per day, and
shall each be subject to removalht the pleasure
of said respective Boards. The compensa ton of
the said assessors, members of the Board OF Con-
troll and Review, and clerks appointed for the
several counties in this State, shall be paid by
the counties in which their duties are respective.
ly performed and the compensation of the said
assessors appointed for the assessment districts
in the City Of Baltimore, and of the members OF
the Board of Control and Review. apl o ntted for
said city, and of their clerks, shall be paid by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore The
accounts for services rendered by the members
of the Boards of Control and Review, and clerks
to said Boards in the respective counties, shall
be approved by the County Commissioners OF
the said respective counties, before the same are
paid and the accounts for services rendered by
the members of the Boards of Control and Re-
view, and clerks to said Boards in the City OF
Baltimore, shall be approved by the Appeal Tax
Court of Baltimore city, before the same are
paid.
Sec. 8. And be it encted, That the Govern or
OF the State shall have power to remove at any
time for c.use, any assessor or assessors, or
member or members of any Board of Control
and Review appointed under this Act and to
appoint another person or other persons, duly
qualified to perform the duties of the said office,
or Offices in the place of the respective person or
persons removed from Office !; and the person or
persons so appointed, shall qualify in the same
manner as if he or they had been originally ap-
pointed under this Act, by the said Governor.
Sec 9 And be it enacted, That every asses
sor, and every person appointed 10 any Board OF
Control and Review, and every clerk appointed
under the provisions of this Act, shall, before he
enters upon the duties of the said office Of asses
sor, member Of the Board of Control and Re-
view, or clerk, take the following oath or affir-
nation, before some person, authorized by law
to administer an oath, or affirmation, to wit
II, --, do swear, Tor solemnly and sin
cerely and truly declare aid affirm), that as
(naming the wards or assessment districts for
which he is appointed assessor, or as q member
of the Board of Control and Review for (num-
ing the county or district) or as clerk to the
Board of Control and Review for (naming the
county or district.) | will, to the best of my
skill and judgment, execute the duties of said
office diligently and faithfully, according to the
directions of the Act, under which am appoint
ed"-entitled ian Act to provide for the general
valuation and assessment of property in this
State" without favor, affection or Partially -
which said oath or affirmation, properly attested
by the Justice of the Peace, or other competent
person, before the same shall have been taken,
shall be filed by the person taking the same,
within ten days after his appointment, in the
office Of the County Commissioners of that
county in which, or in any part of which, his
said duties are to be performed, and In the office
of the Appeal Tax Court of the City of Balti-
more, if his duties are 10 be performed in the
said city, or in any part thereof.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the said County Commissioners OF
the respective counties, and If the Appeal Tax
Court of Baltimore city, to notify the Governor
of any failure on the part of any person APP
pointed assessor for any part of their respective
counties, or of the City of Baltimore, or men,
Der of any Board of Control and Review, for
their respective counties, or for any part of the
City of Baltimore, to qualify as aforesaid and
to notify any Board of Control and Review of
the failure of any clerk or clerks, by it appoint
ed, to qualify as aforesaid and upon receiving
notice of the failure of any person appointed
assessor, or member of Board of Control and
Review, so to qualify, the Governor shall forth
with appoint another person to the said office,
and on the failure of any clerk to any Board of
Control and Review so to qualify, the said Board
shall forthwith appoint another person TO the
said office; and the said respective powers of
appointment by the said Governor, and by the
said respective Boards of Control and Review,
shall be exercised whenever any vacancy occurs
in the offices of the assessors, members of the
Board of Control and Review, or clerks created
under this Act.
Sec. IL. And be it enacted That the Com p
troler of the Treasury be, and he is hereby d.
rected to prepare forthwith, printed instruc-
tons and forms for the guidance and direction
of the assessors, members of the Boards of Con-
troll and Review, and clerks to said Boards, ap-
pointed under the provisions of this Act, and
forms for returns of property to be made by per-
sons liable to assessment but such instructions
shall be in all particulars in conformity with the
provisions of this Act; and he shall transmit to
each of said assessors, members of said Boards
of Control and Review, and clerks, two printed
copies OF the forms and instructions so by him
prepared for their use respectively and he shall
transmit to said respective assessors, such num-
Der of printed forms of returns to be made by
persons and owners to whom property shall be
valued in their respective assessment districts as
shall be necessary.
Sec. IL. And be it enacted, That the said as
SCISSORS, appointed under the provisions of this
Act, for the said several assessment districts of
any county in this State, or for any county in
this State, shall assemble at the places in their
respective counties, at which the Circuit Courts
for said respective counties are usually held on
the first Tuesday in May, in the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, and, thereupon, enter
upon the performance of their respective duties
and the assessors appointed under this Act for
the several assessment districts in the City of
Baltimore, shall assemble at the City Hall, in
said city, on the same day, and thereupon ter
upon the performance of their respective duties
and the assessors, so assembled in the said re-
spective localities as aforesaid, shall primarily
proceed to consider their respective duties under
this Act, and the instructions of the Comptroller
and the forms prepared for their use, to the end
that their said respective duties may be uni
formly discharged and performed.
Sec. 49, And be il enacted, That the mem
bers Of the several Boards of Control and Re-
view, appointed under the provisions of this
Act, for the several counties of this State, shall
assemble at The places in their respective coun-
ties. at which the Circuit Courts for said re-
spectiVe counties are usually held on the first
Tuesday in September, in the year eighteen hun
bred and seventy.six. and, thereupon enter
upon the performance of their respective du-
ties and that the members of the five Boards
of Control and Review, appointed under this
Act for the five districts of the City of Balli.
more, shall assemble in the City Hall, in said
city, and thereupon enter upon the performance
of their respective duties on the same day and
the said respective members of the said Boards
of Control and Review, when so assembled in
the said several loca lities, shall proceed 10
consider their said respective du ties under this
Act, and the instructions of the Comptroller,
and the forms ared for their reanectiya