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viously placed in his hands for collection, less the sums allowed to said
treasurer by the County Commissioners for insolvency and removals.
But, if the said treasurer fails to make the said County Commissioners
any payment on any of the days appointed in this section for such pay-
ment to be made, the clerk to the Board of County Commissioners shall,
without delay, report such default to the said County Commissioners, and
the County Commissioners may forthwith order a suit to be brought on
the treasurer's bond, but if said treasurer fails to make the payments
appointed to be made on the fifteenth day of August, in the year follow-
ing the year of the levy, the County Commissioners shall, within sixty
days following said fifteenth day of August, order a suit to be brought,
without delay, on the treasurer's bond. And they shall move for judg-
ment in the term of the court at which said suit is brought. And the
said treasurer is required to enforce the payment of all taxes, by sale or
otherwise, as herein provided.

1908, ch. 341, sec. 120 (p. 748). 1910. ch. 762, sec. 120 (p. 787). 1914, ch. 834, sec. 120.

188. The said County Commissioners at any time after the expiration
of the term of any county treasurer, or at the time of the final settlement
in this Act provided for, may direct and require him to deliver over to
his successor in office all collectible taxes due upon the levies with which
he was charged, and also to deliver over the notices, schedules and other
proceedings had for the enforcement of payment of said taxes, and in
such case the said successor, or newly elected or qualified treasurer, upon
the delivery to him of the bills for such taxes, shall be empowered and re-
quired to enforce the payment of said taxes in the same manner as his
predecessor could have done, and he shall have all the power and authority
in law with which his predecessor was clothed for that purpose and in
such case the bond of the newly elected or succeeding treasurer shall be-
come responsible for the proper collection and distribution of such taxes
and the bond of the preceding treasurer shall be held responsible for such
taxes as remain uncollected from fault or negligence of his own.

1908, ch. 341, sec. 120A (p. 748). 1910, ch. 762, sec. 120A ( p. 787).
1914, ch. 834, sec. 120A.

189. In the event that the bond of any treasurer shall become liable
to Dorchester County or to the State of Maryland for any unpaid or un-
collected taxes, the sureties on said bond shall be empowered to enforce
the payment of said taxes in the manner prescribed by the Public General
Laws of this State relating to revenue and taxes.

1908, ch. 341, sec. 120B (p. 748). 1910, ch. 762, sec. 120B (p. 787).
1914, ch. 834, sec. 120B.

190. In April, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and in April,
in every second year thereafter, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the
Circuit Court for Dorchester County, or one of the judges thereof shall
appoint a competent accountant to make a careful examination of the
treasurer's and collector's quarterly and yearly reports mentioned in