ART. 81.] REVENUE AND TAXES.

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condition that if the above bound ———— shall well
and faithfully execute bis office, and shall account
for and pay to the treasurer of the state, the seve-
ral 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 obligations to
be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue
in law.

85. The said bonds, when approved by the county
commissioners, shall be recorded in the office of the
clerk of the circuit courts, when approved by the
proper officers in Baltimore city, shall be recorded
in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Bal-
timore city, and when approved by the governor,
shall be filed in the office of the comptroller of the
treasury.

How such
bonds ap-
proved and
recorded.

38. The clerks of the county commissioners and
the register of the city of Baltimore, shall annually
on or before the twentieth day of April, inform the
governor whether there is in their several counties
and the said city, a collector or collectors of the
state taxes, duly appointed in conformity with the
provisions of section thirty-three of this article, and
shall state whether a per centum of the said collec-
tions has been allowed said collectors for their ser-
vices as therein provided, and if so to what extent.

What to be cer-
tified to the
governor

39. If there be no collector of state taxes qualified
and compensated in conformity with the foregoing
provisions in any of the counties, or any of the leg-
islative districts of the said city, by the first day of
May, in any year, the governor shall apoint from
any part of the state, a collector or collectors for the
said county or legislative districts of the said city,
who shall give bond with sureties, to be approved
by the governor, and be in all respects on a footing

When governor
to appoint col-
lectors

with other state collector's bonds, as provided in sec-
tion thirty-four, and the said collector shall have all
the powers of other collectors.

In force from June 1, 1865.

Bond.