CECIL COUNTY. 1963

And, further, the said report shall immediately be published by the
County Commissioners for at least one week, in not less than two news-
papers of general circulation, published in Cecil County.

1918, ch. 141, sec. 12.

153. Any wilful disregard, breach, evasion, violation or failure to dis-
charge any of the duties herein imposed upon any member of the Board
of County Commissioners, or Board of Estimates, or on the part of the
members or member of any other board, or by or upon the part of any
official, shall be a misdemeanor, and upon indictment for and conviction
of such offense in the Circuit Court for Cecil County, he shall be fined not
more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned in the county jail for not
more than one year, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of
the Court.*

COUNTY TREASURER.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. S, sec. 119. 1886, ch. 340. 1894, ch. 25. 1900, ch. 69.

154. The legal and qualified voters of Cecil County shall, at the general
State election, to be held in the year 1901,+ and every two years there-
after, elect some person, a resident of said county, to be Treasurer of Cecil
County, whose duty it shall be to collect and disburse, upon the lawful
orders of the County Commissioners of Cecil County, all taxes levied in
Cecil County and who shall assess all new or missed property in said
county, and for this purpose he is clothed with all the powers possessed
by collectors of taxes under the provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws, and the persons elected to said office under the provisions of this
section shall hold said office for two years from the first Monday in July
succeeding their election; and in order that the term of office of the Coun-
ty Treasurer shall end with the fiscal year, the term of office of the present
County Treasurer is hereby extended to the said first Monday in July.
1902; and the said Treasurer shall, within five days after his qualification
as Treasurer, appoint some person, a resident of said county, to be assist-
ant treasurer, who shall be authorized to act in his place and for whose
acts he shall be responsible, and who shall give such bond to said treasurer
conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty as said Treasurer
may require, and which said assistant treasurer shall receive an annual
salary of fourteen hundred dollars, to be paid by the County Commis-
sioners of Cecil County; provided, however, that at the general election
to be held in Cecil County in the year 1901, and bi-ennially thereafter,
that the said assistant treasurer shall be elected by the votes of the legally
qualified voters of said county, whose term of office shall begin at the
same time as that of the Treasurer to be elected at the said election, and
whose duties, powers, privileges and pay shall be the same as prescribed

*Sec. 13, ch. 141, 1918, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.

+Elected in even years for terms of four years under Art. 17 of Md. Constitution.