Excerpt from Report of the Maryland Tax Commission to the General Assembly: January, 1888 This fact, as far as it is practicable to do so, has pre served the assessor from the fear of removal from Office in the event of the faithful performance Of his duty, which is a constant terror to assessors who hold their office by elec tion. As a rule, the assessors in the Northern and North western States are elected by the people whose property they must value for taxation, and it is a constant subject of comment and complaint in those States, that the asses sors stand in terror Of their influential constituents, and that those who wish to escape taxation know only too well how to work upon the assessor's fears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.