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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

force of Baltimore City, who was permanently disabled in the
discharge of his duties as such patrolman, out of the fund in
in the hands of said Board of Commissioners known and
accounted for as the special fund the sum of nine dollars per
week for his life in lieu of the sum of six dollars per week
now paid to the said James D. Anderson by said Board of
Police Commissioners under and by authority of an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, Chapter four hundred and
fifty -nine, Laws of Maryland, eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, entitled an Act to define a fund of money now in the
hands or which, under existing laws, may come into the hands
of the Board of Police Commissioners for the City of Balti-
more and to provide for its application, approved April 7, 1886.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved, April 10, 1900.
CHAPTER 639.

Frostburg.

AN ACT to provide for a tax collector for the town of Frost-
burg.

Shall elect a
tax collector.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Councilmen at their first meeting
in the month of May shall elect a tax collector from among
the registered voters of the town to serve one year.

Duties of

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said tax col-
lector to collect all taxes once every year, all water rents once
every three months and any other assessments made by the
Mayor and Councilmen of any character whatsoever, and shall
report to the Mayor and Councilmen once every month of all
money collected, and turn the same over to the Treasurer of

Shall file a
bond.

said Town. He shall file a bond in the penal sum of six
thousand dollars and said bond shall be liable for all taxes,
water rents and assessments, whether collected or not, unless
he shall show that the same is uncollectable, and of all such
he shall make a list and ask the Mayor and Councilmen to de-
clare them insolvent. He shall, on the tenth day of January

Proceedings to
collect unpaid
taxes.

in the year for which he was elected, take proceedings to col-
lect by law all taxes remaining unpaid, and he shall collect by
law all water rents that have been due for sixty days, and all
assessments outside of the regular taxes within six months
after they are due. He shall be allowed three per cent, for all
money collected.