ART. 16. ] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

execute, or have executed, either real or personal prop-
erty for the payment of any county taxes then remain-
ing due and unpaid, it being the intent and meaning of
this act to require all persons, body politic or corpo-
rate, owing county taxes, to pay the same to the said
treasurer, at his office, in the town of Upper Marl-
borough, or at the place designated by him in the dif-
ferent districts for receiving county taxes. The county
commissioners of Prince George's county shall, upon
the first Tuesday in April, or within fifteen days there-

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after, in each and every year, appoint a collector of
state taxes, who shall hold office for one year, and may
be re-appointed, and shall give bond to the state of
Maryland in the double sum of state taxes placed in
his hands for collection, which bond shall be approved
by the county commissioners, and be given within
twenty days from the date of appointment, and, upon
failure to do so, the county commissioners shall appoint
a successor, and said collector shall be allowed a com-
mission of six per cent, upon the amount placed in his
hands for collection, if accounted for according to law;
and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners
to levy for said commission in the general levy of state
and county taxes.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

Collector of
state taxes.