JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 739

land in penalty of double the amount of such taxes
to be collected by him, with good and sufficient .se-
curities, to be approved by the county commission-
ers ; and the collector of city taxes in the City of
Baltimore, before he acts as such, shall give bond in
such penalty, as may be prescribed by the ordinances of the Mayor and City Council, to be approved by the	To be approved
Mayor and Presidents of both branches of the City
Council, or any two of them, the Mayor being one,
with the condition that if the above bound —— shall
well and faithfully execute his office, and shall account
for and pay to the county commissioners, or to the
Mayor and City Council of the city of Baltimore, if in
said city, or their order, the several sums of money
which he shall receive for the county or city, as the
case may be,-or be answerable for by law, at such
time as the law shall direct; then the said obligation
to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force	To be void.
and virtue in law ; and every collector of State taxes
appointed by the county commissioners, shall also
give a separate bond to the State of Maryland in a
penalty double the amount of the tax to be collected
by him, with good and sufficient securities, to be ap-
proved by the Governor, with the condition that if
the above bound ———— shall well and faithfully ex-
ecute his office, and shall account for to the Comp-
troller, and pay to the Treasurer of the State the
several sums of money which he shall receive for
the State, or be answerable for by law, at such times
as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to
be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
SEC. 32. Every collector of State taxes in the City
of Baltimore, before he acts as such, shall give a bond	Give bond.
to the State of Maryland in a penalty of seventy-five
thousand dollars, to be approved by the Governor,
with the condition that if the above bound ————
shall well and faithfully execute his office, and shall
account with the Comptroller for, and pay to the
Treasurer of the State, the several sums of money
which he shall receive for the State, or be answera-	Be answerable.
ble for by law at such times as the law shall direct;
then such obligation to be void, otherwise to remain
in full force and virtue in law ; the said collector's
bonds, when approved by the county commissioners,
shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the cir-
cuit court of the respective counties ; when approved