ART. 16. ] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

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payments, the delinquent collector may be removed by
the county commissioners; and at the end of six
months from the time when said taxes were placed in
their hands for collection, the said collectors, and each
of them, shall make to the county treasurer a full

and complete return, under oath, of the whole amount
of taxes collected by them during the year, and also
an alphabetical list of all delinquent taxpayers and
the sum due by each of them, which said list the
county commissioners are authorized to publish in a
newspaper published in the county; and on failure to
complete within twelve months from the day and date
of receiving said taxes the collection and return of the
whole amount thereof to the county treasurer, (except
such sums as the county commissioners, upon examina-
tion of the returns of said collectors, may determine
to be and to have been uncollectable, ) their bonds shall
be liable for the same, and the county commissioners

Returns.

shall cause suit to be brought on the bond given for
the collection of county taxes to the next term of the
county court thereafter, and the said court is hereby
authorized, upon motion of the attorney of said com-
missioners, after notice to said collectors and their

Suit on bonds.

sureties, to take judgment for such amount as may
be found due by them for the non-payment of said
taxes.

Judgment.

46. The county commissioners for Prince George's
county shall, from and after the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, lay their annual levy for state and
county taxes on or before the last Monday in March in
each and every year, and each collector shall be fur-
nished by the clerk of said commissioners with a list
of the assessments in his hands for collection on or
before the fifteenth day of April thereafter.

Annual levy.

47. The county commissioners of Prince George's
county shall, on the second Tuesday in May next, and
on the same day every two years thereafter, appoint a
county treasurer, who shall hold his office for five
years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified,
and be re-eligible thereto, subject at all times to

County trea-
surer.