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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Appropriation

appropriated for that purpose out of the amount
in the Treasury standing to the credit of the Oys-
ter Fund.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 325.

AN ACT to amend Article eighty-one of the Code
of Public General Laws, entitled "Revenue and
Taxes," by adding sub-sections five, six, seven
and eight to Section thirty-four of Article
eighty-one, and relating to the appointment of
Collectors and Collections of Taxes.

Addition.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the following sub-sections be
and they are hereby added to Section thirty-four
of Article eighty-one of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled "Revenue and Taxes," to be desig-
nated respectively as sub-sections five and six.

Collectors to
return to
Treasurer.

Sub-Section 5. It shall be the duty of the several
collectors of taxes to pay over under oath to the
Treasurer of the State of Maryland, and to the
treasurer of the respective counties, or to return
under oath to the County Commissioners of the
respective counties where there is no county trea-
surer, on the first Tuesday of July next, after said
taxes are placed in their hands for collection, and
on the first Tuesday in each and every October,
January, April, July, and thereafter, the amount

Quarterly.

collected by them, until the collections are com-
pleted; and on failure to make such quarterly
payments or returns, the delinquent collector may
be removed by the County Commissioners, and at
the end of the time herein allowed for the collec-
tions aforesaid by said collectors, they and each of
them shall make to the county treasurer, or to the

Return under
oath.

County Commissioners, where there is no county
treasurer, a full and complete return, under oath,
of the whole amount of taxes collected by them
during the year, and on failure to complete within
eighteen months from the day and date of receiv-