638 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 456]

($400.00), to be applied towards paying the expenses of admin-
istering the town government.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 456.

AN ACT to repeal section 42A of Chapter 115 of the Acts of
1910 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany
County," sub-title "County Treasurer and Taxes," and to
re-enact said section with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 42A of Chapter 115 of the Acts of 1910 of
the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany County,"
sub-title "County Treasurer and Taxes," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 42A. The tax collector for each of said tax collection
districts shall have been bona fide residents of the several collec-
tion districts for which they shall be appointed for at least five
years before their appointment and shall be at least twenty-five
years of age, and shall not be related directly or collaterally
within the third degree (nor married to anyone so related) to
any member of the Board of County Commissioners, making
such appointment; and the said collectors shall not be eligible
for re-election for the term next ensuing; and each of said col-
lectors before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall
give bond conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties
in the collection of State and county taxes in the penalty and
with the conditions as now provided for tax collectors" bonds by
section 32 of Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws
of the State of Maryland, with personal or corporate surety or
sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners, except
that the penalty in the said bond of said collector for the collec-
tion of the county taxes for the First Tax Collection District
shall be in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; the penalty
in the bond of said collector for the collection of county taxes
for the Second Tax Collection District shall be in the sum of
seventy-five thousand dollars, and the penalty in the bond of
said collector for the collection of county taxes for the Third
Tax Collection District shall be in the sum of fifty thousand
dollars; and the said County Commissioners, at their April ses-