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and amount of bond which such collectors shall give for the faithful per-
formance of their duties; and may provide for the prompt payment of"
the tax herein authorized to be levied; and for the enforcement by distress.
or otherwise of the payment of the same.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 77. 1918, ch. 207, sec. 77. 1924, ch. 406, sec. 77.

150. The Commissioners of Ellicott City may levy, for general pur--
poses, a tax on the property assessed in said City not exceeding Seventy-
five (75) Cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value thereof.
Said levy shall be made by the Commissioners of Ellicott City on or before
the first day of July in each and every year, and said taxes shall be due
and payable fifteen days after the publication of the ordinance imposing
the same; and, if not paid when due, they shall bear interest at the rate
of six per centum per annum until the same are paid. The amount of"
taxes to be levied in any one year shall be arrived at as follows: a budget
shall be made up by the said Commissioners setting forth the different
items and the amounts levied therefor. The Commissioners of Ellicott,
City may include a "Contingent Account" in their levy, but under no
circumstances shall said contingent account exceed in amount twenty per
cent, of the total amount levied for all the other items of said budget.
When the amount of taxes to be levied has been arrived at by said Com-
missioners for any one year, they shall immediately publish an ordinance
levying said tax upon assessed property within the corporate limits of
said Ellicott City. The budget for each year shall be printed upon the
back of the tax bills for that particular year. In addition to the taxes,
provided for in this Section, said Commissioners shall levy all such
special taxes as may be necessary to provide for the payment of the interest
on any money borrowed by said City, and to liquidate the principal there-
of, as provided for in the Act or Acts under the authority of which such
money has been, or may be, borrowed.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 78.

151. It shall be the duty of the register, as soon as the annual tax
levy is made and placed in his hands for collection, to give notice by
advertisement in one newspaper published in said Ellicott City, which
notice shall state the time from which the taxes bear interest, and shall
warn all persons of their liability to be published as delinquent taxpayers
and to have their property sold unless the taxes, with which they are
respectively charged are paid on or before the first day of January then
next ensuing. He shall also, immediately after said levy is made, make
out the bills of each taxpayer, to which a similar notice shall be annexed,
and upon application shall forward the bill by mail or otherwise to the
person, or his agent, to whom taxes have been assessed. Immediately upon
the first day of January in each and every year he shall make out an
alphabetical list of taxes due and in arrears, which list shall contain the
name or names of the person or persons, or body corporate assessed with
property upon which taxes are due and in arrears, a brief description of