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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 193.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section

133B of Chapter 235 of the Acts of the General Assembly of

Maryland passed in 1898 for Queen Anne's County.

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

land, That Section 133B of Chapter 235 of the Acts of the

General Assembly of Maryland passed in 1898 for Queen

Anne's County be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read as follows :

133B. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer each year during

Duties of
Treasurer of

his term of office as soon as the annual levy is made to give

Queen

public notice thereof by advertisement inserted in two news-

Anne's
County.

papers printed and published in said county, and the taxes so

levied shall be due and payable on the first Monday of Septem-

ber of the year in which they are so levied. It shall be the duty

of said Treasurer, in the month of September of each year of

his term, to sit two days at the principal town in each election

district of said county, and in the months of October and No-

vember, one day in each of said towns in each election district

aforesaid, for the purpose of receiving taxes ; due notice of

each of said sittings shall be given by advertisement as herein-

before provided, and he shall report to the County Commis-

Report to be

sioners, at their first regular meeting in each month, the amount

made

of taxes, State and county, separately collected by him up to

monthly.

the date of such report, and the amount of disbursements made,

and the balance in hand ; and he shall deposit at least once a

week in the two national banks in Centreville all taxes re-

ceived or collected by him up to the date of such deposits, the

portion due to the State to his credit as collector of State taxes

for said county, and the portion due to the county to his credit

as Treasurer of said county; and he shall, once a month, at

least from and after the first clay of October in each year while

in office deliver to the County Commissioners, to be forwarded

to the State Treasurer, his checks for the amount of State

taxes to his credit in said banks, and the money deposited by

him as Treasurer of Queen Anne's County shall only be drawn

out upon his check as such Treasurer, on warrants issued by

the Board of County Commissioners, drawn on him in payment

of debts, demands and accounts due by said county, duly ap-

proved and passed by said County Commissioners, and in mak-

ing such deposits and checking thereon, same shall be done so

that the average weekly balances remaining in each of said

banks shall be, as far as practicable, equal, and any taxpayer