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erick, to be signed by the Mayor, and counter- signed by the Register, in sums not less than one hundred dollars, bearing interest, the interest pay- able semi-annually, payable in twenty years from the date thereof, and redeemable at any time within five years after date, at the pleasure of the said corporation, the interest whereof shall be re- ceivable in payment of corporation taxes.
Sec. 167. That the Mayor, Aldermen and Com- mon Council of Frederick shall have power at such time or times as they may think proper, to appoint Commissioners or Assessors to revise, amend, correct, alter and change the assessment of the property of the citizens of said municipal corporation, and to add to or reduce the valuation of the property real or personal of said citizens or any portion thereof; thereupon the taxes herein- before authorized shall be levied on such new re- vised or changed valuation. And be it further	Assessors,
provided that a right of appeal from the assesss- ment made as aforesaid by the said tax Commis- sioners shall be had to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen and the President of the Board of Common Council, or either two of them, whose duty it shall be, under such terms as may be pre- scribed by the corporate authorities aforesaid, to examine into the merits or demerits of such appeal, and whose decision in the premises shall be final, and the assessment so corrected and amended shall be applicable to all taxes authorized under the authority of the corporation of Frederick aforesaid.	Appeal,
Sec. 168. That the said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council be, and they are hereby author- ized and empowered to levy and collect all neces- sary taxes on the real and personal property within the taxable limits of said corporation as are now assessed and taxed within said limits for county and State purposes under the recent assess- ment made in pursuance of the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, Chapter one hundred and fifty-seven, and the supplement thereto, passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, Chapter three hundred and forty-one, or upon any assessment hereafter made in pursuance of law, of the real and personal property within the taxable limits of said corporation, to pay all	Levy and col- lect.