520 ARTICLE 2.

TREASURER.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 222. 1890, ch. 535. 1894, chs. 1 and 615.
1914 Code, sec. 346. 1924, ch. 134.

487. At the general election for county officers for Anne Arundel
County, to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in No-
vember, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and on the same day in every
fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of said
county, a county treasurer, who shall hold his1 office for four years, from
the first Monday in May next succeeding the day of his election, or until
his successor is duly elected and qualified; he shall be subject to removal
from office by the County Commissioners of said county, for any wilful
neglect of duty or misbehavior in office, at any time, upon conviction in a
court of law; the person so elected county treasurer shall be collector of
all State taxes and all county taxea, for whatsoever purpose, which shall
be levied or assessed during his term of office; and it shall be his duty to
receive and collect all State and county taxes levied or assessed or put in
his hands for collection, with full power to enforce the payment of the
same by sale or otherwise, and to convey title to any real or personal
property duly sold by him. for the payment of State and county taxes,
according to law, and receive all money which shall be due and payable
to said county from any source whatever.

Wells v. Thomas, 72 Md. 26. Davidson v. Brice, 91 Md. 681.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 223. 1890, ch. 535. 1894, ch. 615. 1914 Code, sec. 347.

488. The person elected county treasurer shall give bond to the State
of Maryland for the collection of State taxes placed in his hands for
collection, in double the amount of the taxes to be collected by him, with
good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the Governor, with the con-
dition that the above bounded.......... shall well and faithfully exe-
cute his office and shall account for to the Comptroller, and pay to the
Treasurer of the State, the several sums of money which he shall receive
for the State, or be answerable for by law, at such time as the law shall
direct, then the said obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain
in full force and effect; and he shall execute to the State of Maryland a
separate bond, in the penalty of forty thousand dollars, with at least three
sureties, to be approved by the County Commissioners aforesaid, with the
condition that if the above bounded............ shall well and faithfully

execute his office of Treasurer of Anne Arundel County, and shall ac-
count for and pay to the County Commissioners for said county, or to
their order, the several sums which he shall receive for said county, or
be answerable for by law, at such time and in such manner as the law
shall direct, then the said obligation to be void; otherwise to be and remain
in full force and virtue in law; which bond shall be renewed at the expi-
ration of two years from the time such person is so elected county treas-

*Ch. 388, 1927, amending secs. 488, 495, 497 and 499 was rejected by the voters of
the county at the election in November, 1928, on petition filed under Art. 16 of the
Md. Constitution.