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are authorized to publish in a newspaper published
in the county ; and on failure to complete within
twelve months from the day and date of receiving
said taxes the collection and return of the whole
amount thereof to the County Treasurer, (except
such sums as the County Commissioners, upon ex-.
animation of the returns of said Collectors, may
determine to be and to have been uncollectable,)
their bonds shall be liable for the same, and the
County Commissioners shall cause suit to be
brought on the bond given for the collection of
county taxes to the next terra of the County Court
thereafter, and the said court is hereby author-
ized, upon motion of the Attorney of said Com-
missioners, after notice to said Collectors and their
sureties, to take judgment for such amount as may
be found due by them for the non-payment of said
taxes.
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Suit in bond.
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46. The County Commissioners for Prince
George's County shall, from and after the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, lay their annual
levy for State and county taxes on or before the
last Monday in March in each and every year, and
each Collector shall be furnished by the Clerk of
said Commissioners with a list of the assessments
in his hands for collection on or before the fifteenth
day of April thereafter.
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Annual levy.
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47. The County Commissioners of Prince
George's County shall, on the second Tuesday in
May next, and on the same day every two years
thereafter, appoint a County Treasurer, who shall
hold his office for five years, or until his successor
is appointed and qualified, and be re-eligible
thereto, subject at all times to removal by the said
County Commissioners for any neglect of duty or
misbehavior in office.
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County Trea-
surer.
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48. The person so appointed County Treasurer
shall, before he enters on the duties of his office,
take an oath in due form of law, faithfully to per-
form the duties of his office ; he shall execute and
deliver to the County Commissioners a good and
sufficient bond to be approved by them, in the
sum of thirty thousand dollars, for the faithful
performance of his duty as Treasurer ; and in case
of his default to execute said bond within ten days
from the date of his appointment, the County
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Oath.
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