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Term of office
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of the Code of Public General Laws, and the persons elected
to said office under the provisions of this section shall hold
said office for two years from the first Monday in July suc-
ceeding their election; and in order that the term of office of
the County Treasurer shall end with the fiscal year, the term
of office of the present County Treasurer is hereby extended
to the said first Monday in July, 1902; and the said treasurer
shall, within five days after his qualification as treasurer,
appoint some person, a resident of said county, to be assistant
treasurer, who shall be authorized to act in his place and for
whose acts he shall be responsible, and who shall give such
bond to said treasurer conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of his duty as said treasurer may require, and which
said assistant treasurer shall receive an annual salary of four-
teen hundred dollars, to be paid by the County Commissioners
of Cecil County; provided, however, that at the general elec-
tion to be held in Cecil County in the year 1901, and bi-enni-
ally thereafter, that the said assistant treasurer shall be
elected by the votes of the legally qualified voters of said
county, whose term of office shall begin at the same time as
that of the treasurer to be elected at the said election, and
whose duties, powers, privileges and pay shall be the same as
prescribed by this section for the assistant treasurer of Cecil
County. The said treasurer and his successors in office shall
act as secretary to the County Commissioners of Cecil County,
and as such shall perform all the duties heretofore performed
by the clerk to said commissioners, or which may hereafter
by law be imposed upon clerks to county commissioners, and
shall have charge of all records, books, etc., of the County
Commissioners' office of said county; and said treasurer shall
occupy for the purpose of his said duties the office of the
County Commissioners of said county; and the said treasurer
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Bond, Salary.
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shall receive an annual salary of sixteen hundred dollars, to
be paid by the County Commissioners of said county, and in
the case of their failure to pay said salary of said treasurer
or said assistant treasurer, the said treasurer may pay the
same from any money in his hands belonging to said county;
and the said treasurer for each assessment of property made
by him shall receive fifty cents, and ten cents for each dog or
bitch returned by him to the said commissioner and ordered
by them to be entered on the books of their office; and the
treasurer and his successors in office shall execute to the State
of Maryland two bonds, one of fifteen thousand dollars, con-
ditioned for the proper collections and payment to the State
Treasurer of all State taxes placed in his hands and the faith-
ful performance of all other duties devolving upon him, and
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