LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

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CHAPTER 217.

AN ACT to provide for the speedy Collection of the Public Revenue.
Other acts are, 1829, ch. 90; 1831, ch. 68.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all county clerks and sheriffs shall hereafter pay into the
treasury of the shore on which they reside, on the first day of
May and on the first day of November annually, all public
money which they may have collected up to the said periods.

Payment
1st May
and 1st of
November.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all the county clerks of this
state shall hereafter pay into the treasury the total amount
which they may and shall receive on marriage licenses, and
ordinary and retailers licenses, that is to say, the amount of the
said licenses required by law to be paid to the state, as well as
to the amount of costs or fees chargeable at the time of granting
said licenses.

County
clerks shall
pay.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all the sheriffs of this state
shall hereafter pay into the treasury of the shore on which they
reside, on the first day of May, and on the first day of Novem-
ber annually, all public money which they may have collected
up to the said period.

Semi-an-
nual pay-
ments by
the sheriff.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said county clerks and
sheriffs, shall be entitled to receive a commission of six per cent,
on all money paid by them into the treasury of their respective
shores.

Compen-
sation.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That if payment is not made into
the treasury by the officers aforesaid, of all public money in
their hands within one month after the times specified as afore-
said, they shall be charged with interest at the rate of six per
cent, from the time the said money was due and payable.

Neglect.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That if any county clerk or she-
riff shall hereafter fail or neglect to pay into the treasury the
amount of all public money in his hands for the space of three
months after the same becomes du« and payable, he shall not
be entitled to any commission on said money thereafter paid
into the treasury.

Neglect.

SEC 7. And be it enacted, That the same process shall and
may be had against any sheriff who fails or neglects to pay into
the treasury all public money in his hands at the time the same
becomes due and payable, that now is and can be had against
county clerks.

CHAPTER 219.

Process.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for the regulation
of Officers' Fees.

*1779, ch.
25.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the act to which this is a supplement, as re-

Repeal.