1944

HARFORD COUNTY.

Certificate
of clerk
sufficient
authority.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a certificate signed by the
clerk of the county court, expressing the number of days which
any bailiff may have attended said court, and the sum due to
him, shall be a sufficient authority to the collectors of said
county, to pay the amount so specified in the said certificate.

COLLECTORS AND COUNTY CHARGES.
AN ACT to alter the mode of collecting the County Tax in Harford
County.— 1794, ch. 14.

County di-
vided, be.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Harford county shall and is hereby divided into four districts,
in the manner following, to wit : Deer creek upper, Deer creek
middle, Doer creek lower, and Broad creek hundreds, shall
form the first district; Harford upper, Harford lower, Spesutice
lower, and the Susquehanna hundreds, shall compose the
second district ; Spesutiae upper, Bush river upper, and Bush
river lower hundreds, shall compose the third district ; and
Gunpowder upper, Gunpowder lower, and Eden hundreds,
shall form a fourth district.

Justices to
meet, Sec.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the justices of the levy court
in and for the said county shall, on the first Monday in May
next, or within ten days thereafter, and annually on the same
day, or within ten days thereafter, meet at the court-house in
said county, and then and there appoint four lit and discreet per-
sons as and for collectors ; that is to say, one collector for each
district, who shall be residents of said county for one year next
before their said appointments, and have a freehold therein.

Persons to
have notice,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That each person who shall be
appointed collector as aforesaid shall have notice of his appoint-
ment as soon as conveniently may be by the said justices of the
peace, and shall, within ten days thereafter, appear before the
justices aforesaid on a day by the said justices to be appointed,
and then enter into bond before the said justices, with two suf-
ficient securities, which said principal and securities shall each
be seized in fee of a clear real estate to the full value of the
whole amount put into the hands of the said principal for col-
lection, which said bond shall be taken in double the sum to
be collected by the said collector in his respective district,
with condition to the like effect with the conditions of bonds
entered into by the collectors of the several counties of this
state, which said bond shall be witnessed by any three of the
said justices, and by them shall forthwith be lodged in the
clerk's office of the said county, to be there recorded.

Bonds to be
a lien.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said bonds, when exe-
cuted as aforesaid, shall be a lien on the real estates of the

Power
given to
collectors,
&c.

several collectors from the sealing and delivery thereof.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That each collector, appointed as
aforesaid, after having given bond as aforesaid, shall have the