JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

871

five years before their election, but each and all of said col-
lectors shall be elected by the voters of the whole county,
and each of said collectors before entering upon the discharge
of their duties shall give the bond conditioned for the faith-
ful performance of their duties in the collection of State and
county taxes in the penalty and with the conditions as now
provided for tax collectors bonds by Section thirty-two of
Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
and the County Commissioners, at their April session in the
year nineteen hundred, and in every year thereafter shall
before said collectors shall enter upon the performance of

Tax collectors
shall have
been residents
for certain
time before
election.

Shall give
bond.

their duties fix the salary or compensation of each of said tax
'Collectors for the ensuing year, which amounts so fixed by
said Commissioners shall be in full of all compensation of
every kind to be paid the said collectors for collecting the
State and county taxes so placed in their hands for collection
from year to year, and Sections thirty-one of Article 81 of the
Code of Public General Laws so far as the same relates to Alle-
gany County is hereafter repealed except as hereinbefore pro-
vided.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 535.
AN ACT to incorporate The Century Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Baltimore City, Maryland.

Compensation

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That John T. Morris, William H. Weedon, William J.
McBride, James D. Weedon, Harry D. Hall, John T. Grape,
and whosoever may be now or hereafter associated with them
and their successors shall be and are hereby made a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of The Century
Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore City, Maryland, and as

The Century
Fire Insurance
Company of
Balto. City.
Incorporated

such shall be capable in law to insure real and personal prop-
erty, and effects against loss or damage by fire, under such
conditions as may be by said body corporate adopted, and
shall be embodied in the contract or policy of insurance; also
to purchase, improve, lease, mortgage, hold and dispose of
property, real, personal or mixed, to borrow or loan money on
mortgage, to make advances upon buildings and lands, to loan
on collateral or private securities, and to do all other acts that
may be promotive of the interests of the said body corporate,

Manner of
conducting
business.