ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 11

use of the county commissioners, in the full sum of county taxes
placed in their hands respectively for collection, said bonds to be
approved by the county commissioners for said county, and to
be given within ten days from the date of appointment, and
upon failure to do so the county commissioners to appoint a
successor.

In force from March 7, 1865.
Chapter 96 also, amends section 3 of this article in I. Supplement 16, as follows:

2. The county commissioners for Baltimore county are hereby
authorized and required to appoint eleven collectors upon the
first Tuesday in March next, and bi-annually thereafter, who
shall hold their office for two years, for the collection of State
and county taxes, one for each of the collection districts, as
composed in the second section of the act of eighteen hundred
and sixty-two, chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, (section 2 of
article 3 in I. Supplement 15; ) and said collectors shall each
give a bond annually to the State of Maryland, in the full sum
of State taxes placed in their hands respectively for collection,
and also a bond to the State of Maryland, for the use of the
county commissioners, in the full sum of county taxes placed in
their hands respectively for collection, said bonds to be approved
by the county commissioners for said county, and to be given
within ten days from the date of appointment, and upon failure
to do so, the county commissioners to appoint a successor.

3. The county commissioners for said county are authorized
and empowered to remove from the office of collector in any of
the districts aforesaid, any collector, who in their judgment has
failed to perform the duties of said office faithfully and efficiently,
and to appoint another in his stead, who shall be required to
give bond in the same manner as the other collectors.

In force from February 25, 18d5.