4524 ARTICLE 21.

company qualified to act as surety or guarantor under the laws of the-
State of Maryland, and shall be approved by the Judges of the Circuit
Court for Talbot County, or a majority of them, and thereafter be record-
ed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County, the cost
of said bond to be borne by said county.

1904, ch. 656, sec. 5.

80. Upon the failure of any Treasurer-elect to execute the bond re-
quired and provided for by the preceding section on or before the day on
which he is to take possession of the office of Treasurer and enter upon
the duties thereof, in conformity with the provisions of this Act, the Coun-
ty Commissioners of Talbot County shall appoint some qualified voter of
Talbot County as Treasurer in the place of the one who failed to qualify,
and so on after every interval of thirty days until a Treasurer shall be
duly qualified.

1904, ch. 656, sec. 6.

81. In case of the death, resignation or removal of the Treasurer dur-
ing his term of office the County Commissioners shall, within twenty days
thereafter appoint a Treasurer for the unexpired term thus created, who.
shall take the oath, give the bond and perform all the duties of said office
prescribed by law.

1904, ch. 656, sec. 7.

82. The County Treasurer, in addition to his duties as Treasurer, shall
perform all the duties of Clerk to the County Commissioners of Talbot
County, without any extra compensation whatsoever; and he is empow-
ered to administer an oath or affirmation to any account to any person pre-
senting a claim against Talbot County; but he shall not administer such
oath or affirmation in any other place than in his office or that of the
County Commissioners, nor shall he be allowed any fee for administering
said oath or affirmation.

1904, ch. 656, sec. 8.

83. The said County Commissioners shall make their annual levy for
State and County taxes on or before the first Tuesday in June in each and
every year, and the same shall be due and payable on the first day of Jan-
uary next succeeding the levy thereof; and on all county taxes paid before
the first day of January next succeeding the levy thereof, and on all county
taxes paid before the first day of September a discount of three per cent,
shall be allowed, and the Treasurer shall take the discount from the tax
bills for county purposes regularly in the manner aforesaid, and shall note
the same upon his books and upon receipts for taxes so paid; but the dis-
count allowed on county taxes by this section, or on State taxes provided
by law, shall not be made to any person, set of persons or corporate insti-
tutions, unless the whole amount of State and County taxes due by such
person, set of persons or corporate institution for the current year be paid,
at the time of making such discount.