PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 441

elected and qualified, \o be subject to removal for wilful neglect
of duty or misdemeanor in office upon conviction in a Court of
law; he shall not be eligible to re-election until after an inter-
val of one full term and until he shall have fully settled up
all business connected with his former term; and until such
election can be held under the provisions of this section J.
Marshall Dent, Esq., of said county, be and he is hereby
appointed, authorized and empowered to act as such treasurer,
and to exercise all the powers and to perform all the duties
imposed by this section and the law of this State; lie shall
hold said office for the period of two years from the first
Monday in the month of July, in the year 1900, and until his
successor shall be duly elected and qualified; and the persons
elected to said office under the provisions of this section shall
hold the same for two years from the first Monday in August
succeeding their election; and the said J. Marshall Dent or
his Successor in said office of Treasurer of St. Mary's county,
may appoint some person, a resident of said county, to be
assistant treasurer, who shall be authorized to act in his place,
and for whose act he shall be responsible, and he shall give such
bond to said treasurer conditioned for the faithful performance
of his duty as the said treasurer may require; said assistant
treasurer to be paid by the county treasurer out of the salary
and commissions allowed to him for the collection of county
and State taxes in St. Mary's county. The County Commis-
sioners of said county shall provide the said treasurer with
proper stationery, books, blanks and other necessary appoint-
ments for an office, which office they shall always provide and
furnish in the Town of Leonardtown; and the treasurer
appointed by this section and those to be hereafter elected
shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, to be
paid monthly by the County Commissioners of said county,
and shall also be allowed the commission allowed by Article
81 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Revenue and
Taxes," for the collection of State taxes; and the treasurer
shall receive twenty-five cents for every one hundred dollars'
worth of new and unassessed property not already on the
assessment books assessed by him and ordered by the County
Commissioners to be entered on the books of their office; and
before he enters upon the discharge of the duties of his said
office as treasurer, he and his successors in office shall take
and subscribe before the clerk of the Circuit Court the oath
prescribed by section 6 of Article 1 of the Constitution of
Maryland; and shall execute to the State of Maryland two
bonds, one in the penalty of fifteen thousand dollars, condi-