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REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81.

lection, the collection and return of the whole amount
thereof to the state treasurer and to the county treasu-
rer or the county commissioners, or their order respec-
tively, except such sums as the county commissioners,
upon the examination of the returns of said collection,
may determine to be and to have been uncollectable ;
their bonds shall be liable for the same, and the county

Suit on bond

commissioners shall cause suit to he brought on the
bonds given for the county taxes, and the comptroller
may cause suit to be brought on the bonds given for
state taxes to the next term of the circuit court there-
after; and the said court is hereby authorized and
required, upon motion of the attorney of said commis-
sioners, or the attorney of the state, after notice to said

Judgment with-
out stay of exe-
cution.

collectors and their sureties, to take judgment without
stay of execution for such amounts as may be found
due by them for non-payment or settlement of said
taxes, and the amount of said judgment shall be col-
lected within ninety days thereafter; nor shall any
case be postponed beyond the term of the said circuit
court in which such action may be brought, as herein-
before prescribed.

When collector
shall not be re-
appointed.

Sub-Sec. 6. The county commissioners shall not re-
appoint any person as collector of state or county taxes
whose collections have not been made, and whose ac-
counts have not been settled in full as collector of taxes
within twelve months after the expiration of the year
in which such tax bills have been placed in their hands
for collection, unless said county commissioners shall
have been satisfied by a statement made to them under
oath, that the said collectors have complied with all
the requirements of this law, and that the said delin-
quencies were uncollectable ; and the said commission-
ers may require from collectors any further proof which
in their judgment may seem necessary.

Approved April 4, 1870.
In force on and after the first Tuesday in April, 1870.