REVENUE AND TAXES. 1043
on, and generally all dates prescribed in this Article shall be moved for-
ward or backward accordingly.
Collectors and Collections.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 50.
50. The County Commissioners of the several counties where a col-
lector is not otherwise selected by law shall, on or before January 1st in
each year, appoint a collector or collectors for their respective counties,
whose duty it shall be to collect as certified to him all state and county
taxes levied or to be levied for the current year; and, such collectors shall
receive such compensation as is now or may hereafter be prescribed by law,
provided no such collector shall receive any separate compensation from
the State for collecting State taxes. In and for Baltimore City the col-
lector shall be appointed in the mode prescribed by the Act of 1898, Chap-
ter 123, Sections 25 and 42. Every collector before he acts as such shall
take the oath prescribed by Section 60 of Article I of the Constitution.
1929. ch. 226, sec. 51.
51. As to county taxes every collector before he acts as such shall give
bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty as may be prescribed by
the County Commissioners, but in no case less than the penalty fixed by
existing local laws, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the
County Commissioners; and the collector of city taxes in the City of Balti-
more before he acts as such shall give bond in such penalty as may be
prescribed by the ordinances of the Mayor and City Council to be approved
by the Mayor and President of the City Council. The condition of such
bonds shall be that if the above bound * * * shall well and faithfully
execute his office and shall account for and pay to the County Commis-
sioners, or to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, if in said city,
or their order, the several sums of money which he shall receive for the
county or city, as the case may be, or be answerable for by law, at such
times as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be void, otherwise
to be and remain in full force and virtue in law.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 52.
52. Every such collector in the counties shall also give a separate bond
to the State of Maryland in such penalty as may be prescribed by the
Comptroller of the Treasury with the approval of the Governor, with good
and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Governor, with the condition
that if the above bound * * * shall well and faithfully execute 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 times as the law shall direct, then the said
obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect. The city
collector in the City of Baltimore before he acts as collector of State taxes
in said city shall give a bond with good and sufficient sureties to the State
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