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of votes cast for any candidate for the same office, so that there shall be
no choice, a new election shall be immediately proclaimed by the Mayor
and Common Council and such new election shall be held and conducted
in all respects, except as to the day of election, as all other elections are
conducted under this Act

TBEASDEEB

1908, ch 79, sec 9 1912 Code, sec 300

509. On the same day on which the Mayor and Common Council is
to be elected under this act, and on each and every fust Monday in May
in each and every second year thereafter, one peison, a legal voter in said
town, and owner oi real estate to the value of at least one hundred dollars,
shall be chosen by the voters of said town as its treasurer, to serve for two
years and until his successor shall qualify, but before said treasurer shall
enter upon his duties, he shall give bond payable to the Mayor and Com
mon Council of Hyattsville, in such penalty as the Mayor and Common
Council may fix, with securities to be approved by them, conditioned as
they may direct, and the said treasurer shall qualify and enter upon the
duties of his office on or before the first Monday in June succeeding his
election, and a failure to qualify within the time herein specified shall be
deemed a refusal to accept the office, whereupon the Mayor and Common
Council shall older a new election to fill the vacancy, such election to be
held in the mannei prescnbed by section 297* hereof In the event of the
death, resignation, inability to act or removal for cause of the treasurer
by the Mayor and Common Council, it shall be its duty to appoint another
treasurer under like conditions as to bond, to serve until the next succeed
ing town election, at which his successor shall be chosen to seive until
the expiration of the next regular term of treasurer or until his successor
may be elected and qualified

1908, ch 79, sec 10 1912 Code, sec 301 1927, ch 169

510. The treasurer shall make all collections of taxes and receive all
money paid for the use and benefit of said corporation, he shall keep an
account of the receipts and disbuisements of the funds of the corporation,
in a well bound book, to be provided by the said Mayor and Common
Council for that purpose, and shall render the account to the Mayor and
Common Council when lequned by them, for all moneys received by him,
and shall promptly disburse on the older of the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil under such regulations as they may prescribe, all sums of moneys so
received by him He shall receive for his services five per cent of his
collections, provided, his total compensation for such services shall not
exceed $2,000 in any one fiscal year

*Sec 297 of 1912 Code, to which this had reference, was repealed by ch 3, 1920
(Special Session)