EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ.. GOVERNOR.

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or succeeding Treasurer shall become responsible for the proper

Bond of pre-

collection and distribution of such taxes, and the bond of the

ceding

preceding Treasurer shall be held responsible for such taxes

Treasurer
responsible.

as remain uncollected from fault or negligence of his own.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That in the event that the bond

of any Treasurer shall become liable to Wicomico County or

to the State of Maryland for any unpaid or uncollected taxes,

the sureties on said bond shall be empowered to enforce the

payment of said taxes in the same manner as said Treasurer

could have done.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted. That the Treasurer may. in his

discretion, attend in each election district three days in each

year to collect and receive taxes, and he shall give at least two

weeks' notice of the time and place of such visits to the re-

spective districts by hand bills and post the same conspicuously

Method of
collecting

in not less than three public places in such election district of

taxes.

said county, and by advertising in two newspapers published in

Wicomico County, and said notice and advertisement shall

contain a brief statement of the discounts allowed and interest

charged on tax bills.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the

Treasurer, in his visits to the different districts of said Wicom-

ico County for the purpose of receiving and collecting State

Duties of

and county taxes provided in the preceding section, and at all

Treasurer.

other times, to inform himself, by all lawful means, of all

property, stock or investments in said county subject to taxa-

tion and not included in the last revised list of assessments.

and of all buildings and improvements, and all property created

or acquired since said revised assessments, and he shall value

the same at full cash value thereof and shall make returns

thereof to the County Commissioners, and for the purpose of

this section the said Treasurer shall be clothed with the power

of general assessor, and his valuation of any property shall be

subject to revision and correction by said County Commission-

Valuation

ers; and nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere

of property.

with or affect the right, powers and duties of the County Com-

missioners under and by virtue of the General Laws of the

State in relation to such new and other assessments of property.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted. That whenever land shall be sold

by the Treasurer, the owner thereof may redeem the same by

Redemption

paying into the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, to be

of property
sold and the

paid to the purchaser of said land, within the period of twelve

costs of
same.

months from the date of such sale, the amount of the purchase