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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

expiration of the year in which such tax bills have
been placed in their hands for collection, unless
said County Commissioners shall be satisfied that
the said collectors have complied with the require-
ments of law, and that said delinquencies were un-
collectable, and the said collectors shall, on all
sums of county taxes paid to them by any tax-
payer, on or before the fifteenth day of September
of the year for which the taxes were levied, allow
a deduction of three per cent, on all sums paid as
aforesaid, on or before the fifteenth day of October
of the said year, a deduction of two per cent., and
on all sums paid as aforesaid on or before the fif-

Allow deduc-
tion.

teenth day of November of the said year a deduc-
tion of one per cent,, which deduction shall in each
case be noted by the collector upon the receipt
given to said taxpayer ;and upon all taxes that
may be in arrear on the first day of January next
succeeding the levy of said taxes, said collectors
shall charge the tax payer whose taxes are so in
arrear one per cent, upon the amount thereof, and
one per cent, for each and every mouth that said
taxes maybe in arrear after said first day of Janu-
ary until the same are paid.

In force.

Sub-Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1870.