David Harry - tax collector 1803 Washington County, Maryland

1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. XCII.

On application,chancellor may dived a sale,&c.

An ACT for the valuation of real and personal property within this state.

Passed 7th of January, 1804,

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all real and personal property, in this state, except property belonging to this state, or the United States, houses for public worship,burying-grounds, or property belonging to any county, or to any college, or to any county school, and except also the crop and produce of the land in the hands of the person whose land produced the same, or in the hands of the tenant, and provisions necessary for the use and consumption of the person to whom the same shall belong, an.d his family, for the year, and plantation utensils, the working tools of mechanics and manufacturers, actually and constantly employed in their respective Properly to be valued occupations, wearing apparel, goods, wares and merchandise, and all home made manufactures in the hands of manufacturers, all ready money, all grain and tobacco, and all licensed vessels whatever, shall be valued agreeably to the directions of this act, and shall be chargeable according to such valuation with the public assessment.
Commissioners to be appointed, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That five sensible, discreet and experienced persons, shall be appointed in each- county of this state, who shall be commissioners of the tax, and they, or any three or more of them, shall be commissioners for the county for which they shall severally be appointed; and five persons as aforesaid shall be appointed, and called Commissioners of the Tax for the City of Baltimore, for the same time.
Their names.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the following persons shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners for the several and respective counties of this state, and for the city of Baltimore, to wit :
For Saint-Mary's county, Jame....for Washington county, Martin Kershner, William Webb, David Harry, Frisby Tiighman and James M'Clain; for Montgomery county, Wi