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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or other stated compensation for the collection of
the State Taxes, or a compensation or a salary of
any kind, to the said collectors for their services in
collecting the State Taxes, otherwise than by a
per centum on the amount of their collections as
contemplated in the seventy-fifth Section of this
Article.

Bond.

34. Sub-Sec. 1. Every collector of County Taxes,
before he acts as such, shall give bond to the
State of Maryland in a penalty of double the
amount of such tax to be collected by him, with
good and sufficient securities to be approved in the
several counties by the County Commissioners,
with condition that if the above bound ......... shall
well and faithfully execute his office, and shall ac-
count for and pay to the County Commissioners,
or their order, the several sums of money which he
shall receive for the county, or be answerable for
by law, at such time as the law shall direct, and
every collector of State Taxes appointed by the
County Commissioners, shall also give a separate
bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty double
the amount of the tax to be collected by him, with
good and sufficient securities, to be approved by
the Governor, with condition that if the above
bound .......... shall well and faithfully execute

Account for
money.

his office, and shall account for and pay to the
Treasurer of the State the several sums of money
which he shall receive for the State, or be answer-
able for by law, at such times as the law shall di-
rect, then the said obligation to be void, otherwise
to remain in full force and effect ; provided, how-
ever, the provisions of this Act shall not apply to
Baltimore, Allegany, Charles, Montgomery, So-
merset, Wicomico and Anne Arundel Counties.

Bond — obli-
gation void.

Sub-Sec. 2. Every collector of State Taxes in the
City of Baltimore, before he acts as such, shall
give a bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty
of seventy-five thousand dollars, to be approved by
the Governor, with the conditions that if the above
bound ......... shall well and faithfully execute his
office, and shall account for and pay to the Trea-
surer of the State the several sums of money which
he shall receive for the State, or be answerable for
by law, at such times as the law shall direct, then
such obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in
full force and virtue in law.