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three tax collectors, one for each of said tax collection districts, which
collectors shall hold their office for a term of two years, beginning on the
first Tuesday of April next after their election, or until their successors
are elected and qualified; and said collectors shall be subject to removal
from their said office by the County Commissioners of Allegany County
for any neglect of duty, misbehavior in office or incompetency, at any time.

1898, ch. 179, sec. 42A. 1900, ch. 534. 1910, ch. 115, sec. 42A (p. 497). 1912, ch. 456.
1914, ch. 358. 1918, ch. 164. 1922, ch. 8. 1924, ch. 73. 1927, ch. 423.

117. The Tax Collectors for each of said Tax Collection Districts
shall have been bona fide residents of the several collection districts for
which they shall have been appointed for at least five years before their
appointment, and shall be at least twenty-five years of age, and shall not
be related directly or collaterally within the third degree (nor married
to anyone so related) to any member of the Board of County Commis-
sioners, making such appointment; and the said Collectors shall not be
eligible for re-election for the term next ensuing; and each of said Col-
lectors before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties shall give
bond conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties in the
collection of State and County taxes in the penalty, and with the condi-
tions as now provided for Tax Collectors' bonds by Section 32* of Article
81 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, with
personal or corporate surety or sureties to be approved by the County
Commissioners, except that the penalty in the said bond of said Collector
for the collection of the County taxes for the First Tax Collection Dis-
trict shall be in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; the penalty in
the bond of said Collector for the collection of County taxes for the
Second Tax Collection District shall be in the sum of fifty thousand dol-
lars, and the penalty in the bond of said Collector for the collection of
County taxes for the Third Tax Collection District, shall be in the sum
of fifty thousand dollars; and said County Commissioners, at their April
session in the year 1927 and in each year thereafter shall, before said Col-
lectors enter upon the performance of their duties, fix the salary or com-
pensation of each of said tax collectors for the ensuing year, to be paid
by the Commissioners, and not retained out of the collections by the Col-
lector, which amount so fixed by said Commissioners, shall be in full of
all compensation of every kind to be paid the said Collectors for collect-
ing the State and County taxes, so placed in their hands for collection
from year to year, and Section 31 of Article 81 of the Code of Publie
General Laws so far as the same relates to Allegany County is hereby
repealed, except as hereinbefore provided; and the salary or compensa-
tion shall be upon a commission basis to be determined by the County
Commissioners, but said Commission shall not exceed one per centum for
the First Tax Collection District, nor three per centum for the Second
and Third Districts, respectively, provided that the compensation in said

*Refer to sections of Art. 81 as they existed prior to 1929. See 1929 Supplement
to Annotated Code, secs. 50-52.