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Discounts.
To be noted
on vouchers.
Interest.
In force.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
appointed, but said County Commissioners shall not
appoint or re-appoint any person as such collector,
whose collections have not been made and paid over
as required, and whose accounts have not been
settled to their satisfaction within six months after
the end of the year for which lie was first appointed.
SUB-SEC. 5. The said collectors, on all sums of '
county taxes paid to them by or for any tax payer,
on or before the last day of September, of the year
for which the same were levied, shall allow and give
a deduction of four per cent.; and on all of said sums
paid on or before the last day of October of such
year, a deduction of three per cent.; and on all of
said sums paid on or before the last day of Novem-
ber of such year, a deduction of two per cent.; and
on all of said sums paid on or before the last day of
December of such year, a deduction of one per cent.
of the several amounts of such taxes, which deduc-
tions shall, in all cases, be noted on the vouchers or
receipts given for the payment of such taxes; and
upon all taxes which shall be in arrear and unpaid
by the last day of January next, succeeding the year
for which they were levied, the said collectors shall
charge and collect, and the delinquent tax payer
shall pay interest until the said taxes be paid, to be
noted on the receipts given for the payment of such
taxes in arrear as aforesaid, and added to the amount
thereof, and for payment over to the County Com-
missioners or to their order, the bonds of said collec-
tors shall be liable in the same manner, and to like
extent, as herein provided for the principal sums of
the taxes placed in their hands for collection, on
which the same may become payable by the default
in payment of the tax payers owing to the same, for
the time and periods afore herein stated.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That tills Act and these
sub-sections shall go into full force and effect from
the day of its passage.
Approved March 28, 1872.
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