3194 ARTICLE 15.

and qualified, and who shall be subject at all times to be removed for
wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office, upon conviction in a
Court of Law; he shall not be eligible to re-election until after the interval
of one full term, and in no event until he shall have fully settled up all
business connection with his former term. It shall be the duty of said
County Treasurer to collect all state and county taxes levied in Kent
County, and said Treasurer shall have the power and authority to assess
all new or unassessed property in said county, and for this purpose he is
clothed with all the powers possessed by collectors of taxes under the pro-
visions of the Code of Public General Laws, and said Treasurer may
appoint a deputy treasurer, who shall receive an annual salary of not
nore than one thousand ($1,000) dollars to be paid by the County Com-
missioners of Kent County, who shall be authorized to act in his place,
for whose acts he shall be responsible and said treasurer may also appoint
one or more deputies, who shall be authorized to act in his place, for whose
acts he shall be responsible and to whom he may pay such compensation
as he may deem proper,to be deducted from his salary and said treasurer

sihall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars and the fees for
celling the property of delinquents, as hereinafter provided, as are allowed

collectors of taxes under the provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws, and the further sum of twenty-five cents for each person's prop-
erty assessed by him, and five cents for each dog or bitch returned to the
County Commissioners and by them ordered to be entered on the assess-

ment books of the county; but dogs in the incorporated towns which im-
pose a tax thereon shall not be assessed by the County Commissioners;
said Treasurer shall, before entering upon his duties of his office, execute
to the State of Maryland, two bonds, with sureties to be approved by the
County Commissioners, one for fifteen thousand dollars, conditioned for
the faithful collection and payment to the State Treasurer of all State
taxes levied and placed in his hands for collection and the faithful per-
formance of all other duties devolving on him, and another bond for
twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the proper collection and dis-
bursement of all taxes levied and placed in his hands for Kent County,
and the faithful performance of all other duties devolving upon him;
said bonds to be filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for said county.

1890, ch. 203. 1894, ch. 292. 1902, ch. 156. 1906, ch. 114, sec. 223.
153. It shall be the duty of the treasurer each year as soon as the
annual levy is made to give public notice thereof by advertisement inserted
in two newspapers printed and published in said county, and the taxes
so levied shall be due and payable on the first day of September of the
year in which they are so levied. It shall be the duty of the said treasurer
in the month of September in each year to sit for two days at the principal
town in each election district of said county, and in the month of October
and November one day in each of said towns in each election district as
aforesaid, for the purpose of receiving taxes; due notice of each of said