PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 355

Article 1 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Allegany County," sub-title "County Treasurer and
Taxes," as enacted by Chapter 115 of the Acts of 1910, be and
the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted to be known as
section 43, 43A, 43B, 43C, 43D, 43E and 43F, respectively,
under the title "County Treasurer and Taxes," and that said
sections be and the same are hereby added to Article 1 of the
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany County," sub-
title "County Treasurer and Taxes," to read as follows:

43. The County Commissioners of said county shall make
their annual levy for State and county taxes on the third Tues-
day, in April, in each and every year, upon all tax bills for
county purposes, which shall be paid in full on or before the
thirtieth day of June, in the year of the levy thereof. A dis-
count of five per centum shall be deducted from the amount
thereof, and from such tax bills paid during the month of
July succeeding the levy thereof a discount of four per centum
shall be allowed and from all paid during the month of August
succeeding a discount of three per centum shall be allowed.
No discount shall be allowed on any such tax bills paid after
the thirty-first day of August next succeeding the date of the
levy thereof, upon all taxes levied for county purposes remain-
ing unpaid on the thirty-first day of August, in the year of the
levy thereof shall be in arrears and interest shall be charged
and collected thereon from the 1st day of September next suc-
ceeding the levy thereof, and on and after the first day of
September, in the year of the levy of said taxes, they shall be
due and payable, and said collectors are empowered and author-
ized to institute suit against all delinquents for taxes so in
arrears, and the collectors shall make deductions or charge inter-
est, as the case may be, on the tax bills for county purposes
in the manner aforesaid, and shall note the same upon their
books, and upon the receipt given for the taxes so paid.

43A. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners as
soon as the annual levy shall have been made to give public
notice thereof by advertisements, inserted once a week for three
successive weeks in a newspaper published in said county, and
for the collectors of their respective districts to prepare the
bills of each taxpayer in his collection district, and on applica-
tion he shall forward the bill by mail or deliver the same to the
person or corporation to whom the property included in such bill
is assessed. It shall be the duty of the collectors immediately
after the first day of January, succeeding each levy, to make
out bills of all State and county taxes which have not been
paid in duplicate from and to place the same in the hands of