JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 741

pointment, the County Commissioners or Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be, shall
immediately appoint another in his place, and shall
continue after twenty days to make such appoint-
ment until a collector shall give bond as directed.
SEC. 37. The clerks of the county commissioners
and the Register of the City of Baltimore, shall	Inform the Governor
annually, on or before the first day of May, inform
the Governor whether there is in their several
counties and the said city, a collector or collectors
of the State taxes, duly appointed in conformity with
the provisions of this article, and shall state whether
a per centum of the said collections has been allowed
said collectors for their sei'vices as therein provided,
and if so, to what extent.
SEC. 38. If there be no collector of State taxes,	No collector
qualified and compensated in conformity with the	qualified
foregoing provisions in any of the counties or in said
city, by the fifteenth day of May in any year, the
Governor shall appoint from any part of the State, a
collector or collectors for the said county or the said
city, who shall give bond with sureties to be approved
by the Governor, and be in all respects on a footing
with other State collectors' bonds as provided in this
article, and the said collector shall have all the powers
of other collectors.
SEC. 39. If any collector, appointed under the last	Pail to give
preceding section, shall fail to give bond within	bond
thirty days, the Governor shall appoint another in
his place, and so on after every interval of thirty
days, until a collector shall qualify.
SEC. 40. A separate collector may be appointed to	Separate col-
collect the State taxes in any of the counties or the	lector
City of Baltimore ; and if so appointed, shall give
bond as hereinbefore required.
SEC. 41. The clerk of the county commissioners in	Keep accurate
each county and of the Appeal Tax Court in the City	account
of Baltimore, shall keep an accurate account of the
assessment or rate of taxes assessed upon the taxa-
ble property of his county or city, and how such
assessment is disposed of, in a book to be kept for
that purpose alone ; and said clerks shall, within ten