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the close of each year be furnished the county com-
missioners.
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SEC. 19. Be it enacted, That all documents, books
and papers belonging to his office are hereby declared
to be the property and records of Baltimore county,
and at all times shall be subject to the examination
of the grand jury and commissioners, or of any tax
payer of said county, and it shall be the duty of the
grand jury at each session to appoint from their own
body a committee to examine the books and accounts
of the said treasurer and to report to the Circuit
Court the result of such examination.
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Books and
papers.
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SEC. 20. Be. it enacted, That the county commis-
sioners shall appoint and furnish the treasurer an
office in the court house for the transaction of busi-
ness, and the said office shall be open for that pur-
pose each day of the year, Sundays and legal holidays
excepted, from nine o'clock A. M. until three o'clock
P. M. from the first day of November until the first
day of April, and from nine o'clock A. M. until five
o'clock P. M. for the remainder of the year.
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Furnish office
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SEC. 21. Be it enacted, That the persons now hold-
ing appointments as tax collectors in said county
shall proceed to collect the taxes, accounts of which
are now in their hands for collection, and when col-
lected to pay them over to the treasurer or the receiver
of taxes as the case may be, on the first Tuesday of
each month until the first Tuesday in January in the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, on which
last mentioned da}- they shall make their final pay-
ments and deliver to the treasurer or receiver any
accounts for taxes remaining uncollected, whose
duty it shall be thereafter to collect the taxes so
remaining unpaid in the manner hereinbefore pro-
vided, and upon such payment of all taxes collected
by, and delivery of all the accounts remaining uncol-
lected in the hands of said collectors, their bonds
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Collect taxes.
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shall be surrendered to them; but if any of said
collectors shall fail, neglect or refuse to pay over all
the money collected by him for taxes, or to deliver
all such accounts for taxes as may remain in his
hands uncollected as directed by the preceding part
of this section, said treasurer or receiver of taxes
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Surrender
bonds.
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