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8. The judge of said court, in his discretion, may appoint in-
termediate terms for the transaction of equity business, to which
equity process shall be returnable, as well as to the stated terms
of the court.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

4. Therp shall be three county commissioners for said county.

5. Each commissioner shall be entitled to two dollars a day for
each day he shall necessarily attend to the duties of his office,
and two dollars for every twenty miles he may travel to their
place of meeting.

6*. Howard county shall be divided into two collection dis-
tricts, as follows: the first and second election districts to com-
pose the first collection district, and the third, fourth and fifth
election districts to compose the second collection district.

7*. The commissioners of Howard county, on the first Tuesday
of May in each year, shall appoint collectors of the State and county
taxes for each. of the said collection districts, who shall severally
give bond to be approved by the said commissioners in double
the amount of State and county taxes placed in their hands re-
spectively for collection; and in case of failure of any person so
appointed to give bond within two weeks from the date of his
appointment, then said commissioners shall appoint some other
person in his place, with the same conditions, and so on until col-
lectors are duly qualified as aforesaid.

8*. The collector for the first collection district shall receive
six per cent., and the collector for the second collection district
six per cent. on all sums by them respectively collected and paid
over, and the said county commissioners shall, in the general
levy for State and county taxes, include an amount sufficient to
cover the commission for collecting the whole of said taxes at
the rates aforesaid.

9*; The said collectors shall, on the first Tuesday of each
month, account for under oath and pay over to the treasurer of
Howard county, and on the second Tuesday of September, De-
cember, March and June, the Treasurer of the State, respectively,
the amount collected by them, until the whole of the State and
coAnty taxes placed in their hands for Collection are duly col-
lectedand paid; and in case any collector shall fidi so to account