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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 656.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 619 of the Acts of the General

Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1900,

and to repeal Chapter 334 of the Acts of the General As-

sembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1902,

entitled "An Act providing for the election of a County

Treasurer for Talbot County," and defining the duties and

powers of said Treasurer, and to enact the following in

lieu thereof:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Providing for
election of

land, That Chapter 619 of the Acts of the General Assembly

Treasurer of
Talbot Coun-
ty, Md.

of Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1900, and Chapter
344 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed

at the January Session, 1902, entitled "An Act to provide

for the election of a County Treasurer for Talbot County,"

and defining the duties and powers of said Treasurer, be

and the same are hereby repealed and the following re-enacted

in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at the general election of

Term of
office.

county officers to be held in November, 1905, and every six

years thereafter, a County Treasurer shall be elected by the

qualified voters of Talbot County, who shall hold office for the

term of six years from the first day of June next following

his election and until his successor shall qualify.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Treasurer shall

Treasurer to

be the collector of all State taxes and of all county taxes for

collect State
and County

whatsoever purposes levied or to be levied for or within said

taxes.

county during the term of his office, or that may be placed

in his hands for collection, and he shall have full power, and

it shall be his duty to receive and collect all State and County

taxes levied, as aforesaid, after this Act shall take effect, and

to put in his hands for collection, and all money which may

be due said county, with full power to enforce the payment

of the same by sale or otherwise, as hereinafter prescribed,

and to convey title to any real or personal estate sold by

him for the payment of State and county taxes, in the same

manner as prescribed by the succeeding sections; and all taxes

levied in said Talbot County after the first day of January,

1902, for State and County purposes, shall be collected by

the County Treasurer.