The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-04-29

| oath of office prescribed by the ConstI.
tuition OF this State, and shall execute
such bond as the Treasurer may require
! And 1t shall be the duty OF the County Com
| missioners to assign the Treasurer an ONCE
In the Court House ,or such other building as
| they may deem mCst convenient, and sum
ply the same with all necessary furniture.
and annually TO levy such sums as may be
necessary for the purchase of books stat
| ionery and stamps, for the use OF the Trea-
snrer, and for all printing required under
the provisions of this Act not otherwise pro-
vided for.
262 s. 1t shall be the duty of til clerk of the
! C"un Commissioners to assist the Treas.
| urer in the clerical work OF the Tressurer's
| office at such time as will not conflict with
his duties as Clerk OF the County Commits
sisners, and as may be required by said
| County Com miGsionors
2G2 T. Nothing in this Article contained
shall be taken or understood as impairing
| the duties and obligations OF collectors OF
taxes in Hartford county heretofore appoint
| ed. in regard to levies now in their hands for
| collection; but such collectors shall proceed
| 10 complete such collections under the ex-
isting provisions of law as fully us il this act
had not been passed, and the clerk of the
County Commissioners shall continue to
perform all the duties by him required to be
performed in relation to the receipt and dis
bursement of taxes heretofore levied until
an outstanding accounts thereupon depen-
dent shall be fully settled and closed, and
for that purpose only the provisions OF law
applicable thereto are hereby continued In
force until such accounts are settled and
closed as aforesaid.
2G2 V. II shall be the duty ofthe treasurer,
at all times, to inform himself, by lawful
means II all property, stock or Investments
in said county liable to taxation, and not fn-
cluded in the last revised list OF assessment
and OF all buildings and improvements and
OF all property created or ACQUIRED since said
revised assessments, and he shall value the
same at the full cash value thereof and shall
make return thereof to the County Commits
sioners, with the postoffice address of the
persons assessed; and for the purpose of this
section, the said Treasurer shall be clothed
with the power of general assessor, and shall
receive the fees heretofore allowed by law or
usage, to collectors of taxes for assessing new
property in said county, and his valuation
shall be subject TO revision and correction by
said Commissioners upon appeal.
Before any assessment made as aforesaid
shall become valid, five days notice thereof
In writing shall be given TO the owner OF the
property to be assessed. and II such owner be
not found within the limits OF said county
then he same shall be given TO the person in
possession of the property to be assessed in
whose custody the same may be- or II IL be
land, and 10 one is in the apparent occu-
pancy thereof, then such notice shall be
posted on said land.
1852 Y. All laws or parts OF laws genera or
local, inconsistent with the provisions Of
this article, are hereby repealed.
262 Y. The County Commissioners of HaP.
ford County shall close the annual levy and
complete the same in the year 1898, before
the last day OF May, and annually thereafter
before the last day OF April.
262 u. The intention of this subtitle ia TO
facilitate and expedite the collection of take
III hdTloIu county, ana thereby generally t.
promote the business OF the County Commits.
sioners' Office in said county, and for that
purpose all the provisions OF this subtitle
shall be literally construed, and all powers
now by law belonging to collectors Of taxes
of said county, SO far the same are NOT
Inconsistent with the provisions OF this SUBJ
title aud Its purposes, and SO far as the same
Will facilitate the Treasurer OF said county
In the discharge of his duties hereunder
shall be possessed by and are hereby given
to the said Treasurer, but he shall not by i'm
plicat1on be held to possess any OF the pow
ers OF such collectors as might tend 10 DELAY
MIN In the discharge OF his duties, or render
the purpose OF this subtitle more difficult.
Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved April Tth, 1898,