1849

Francis THOMAS, esquire, governor.

chap. 364.

Companies to
furnish quar-
terly state-
ments.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the Tide Water Cairn
Company and the Susquehanna Canal Company, shall fur-
nish to the Treasurer of this State, under oath, quarterly
statements of the receipts and expenditures on said
canals.

CHAPTER 364.

Passed March
9, 1844.

A farther supplement to an act passed at March session,
eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter twenty-three,
entitled an act for the general valuation and assessment
of property in this State, and to provide a tax to pay the
debts of the State.

Preamble.

Whereas it has been represented to this General As-
sembly, that several of the local authorities in this State,
have reduced the assessed value of the property directed
to be assessed by the act to which this is a further supple-
ment, contrary to the spirit and true intent and meaning

Deductions or
abatements
alter 20 days
illegal.

of the said original act, for remedy whereof,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all deductions and abatements in the
value of property, assessed under the said original act,
made by commissioners, the levy courts, and the appeal
tax court in the city of Baltimore, subsequently to the
expiration of twenty days, after the second Monday in
November next, after the passage of said original act, as
provided for by the twenty-fourth section thereof, except
as herein after provided, be and the same are hereby de-
clared illegal and contrary to the true intent and meaning
of said original act.

No deduction
allowed in the
amount asses-
sed after peri-
od mentioned.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That no deduction or abate-
ment in the amount for which any person or taxable may
have been assessed, shall be allowed if made after the
period mentioned in the preceding section, unless such
person, or taxable shall have aliened, transferred, or lost
the property proposed to be deducted, as provided for in
the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth sections of said original
act, and then only, in the mode and manner, and upon the
proof therein prescribed, or unless such deduction or
abatement shall have been made in conformity with the
opinion of the Court of Appeals, as directed by the thirty-
fourth section of said original act.

Governed by
assessment of
original act.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the levy courts, and commissioners, as the case may be,
of the several counties, and of Howard District, and of