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same day and month in every fourth year thereafter elect a suitable person
of good repute and fit business capacity to be county treasurer for said
county, who shall execute the required bond or bonds and qualify in the
manner hereinafter provided, and shall hold his office commencing on the
third Tuesday of the April following such election for four years or until
his successor shall be elected and qualified, and said person shall be ineli-
gible for four years thereafter for election to the same office.

1890, ch. 566, sec. 42B. 1892, ch. 520, sec. 42B.

98. And the said county treasurer shall be collector of all State and
county taxes for whatever purpose levied or to be levied for within said
county during his term of office, or that may be placed in his hands for
collection, and he shall have full power, and it shall be his bounden duty to
receive and collect all State and county taxes levied as aforesaid and so
placed in his hands for collection, and all moneys which may be due said
county with full power to enforce the payment of the same by sale or
otherwise as hereinafter prescribed and to convey to any purchaser by a
good and sufficient deed any real or personal property sold by him for the
payment of any State or county taxes or both in the manner provided in
the succeeding section of this Article.

1890, ch. 566, sec. 42C. 1892, ch. 520, sec. 42C.

99. The said treasurer shall be subject to removal from office at all
times by the judges of the Circuit Court for Garrett County upon convic-
tion for wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor or misbehavior in office.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec, 44. 1890, ch. 566, sec. 43.

100. The person elected treasurer, before he enters upon the duties of
his said office, shall take an oath before the clerk of the circuit court for
said county in form similar to that taken by collectors of taxes, except as to
the title of his office, and to be similarly certified; he shall execute to the
State of Maryland such bond as is now or may hereafter be required by
law as the collector of State taxes, which bond shall be approved and filed
in like manner as other bonds of collectors of State taxes; and he shall
execute to the State of Maryland a separate bond in the penal sum of
thirty thousand dollars, with at least three sureties to be approved by the
county commissioners of Garrett county, with the condition that the above
bounden—shall well and faithfully execute his office of treasurer of Gar-
rett county, and shall account for and pay to the county commissioners of
said county or their order, the several sums of moneys which he shall'
receive for said county, or be answerable for by law at such time and in
such manner as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be void,
otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law; and the said
bond when approved shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the court
for Garrett county; in case of the default of the person so selected to
qualify and execute the bonds hereinbefore required before the expiration
of twenty days next after the third Tuesday in April when his term of
office should begin, or in the event of the treasurer's removal from the