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LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. [ART. 11.

———— shall well and faithfully execute his office, and shall account
for and pay to the county commissioners, or to the mayor and city
council of the city of Baltimore, if in said city, or their order, the
several sums of money which he shall receive for the county or
city, as the case may be, or be answerable for by law, at such time
as the law shall direct; then the said obligation to be void, other-
wise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law; and every
collector of State taxes appointed by the county commissioners,
shall also give a separate bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty
double the amount of the tax to be collected by him, with good and
sufficient securities, to be approved by the governor, with the con-
dition that if the above bound ———— shall well and faithfully ex-
ecute his office, and shall account for to the comptroller, and pay
to the treasurer of the State the several 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 obligation to be void,
otherwise to remain in full force and effect.

Id s 32.
Bond of collec-
tor in city of
Baltimore

32. Every collector of State taxes in the city of Baltimore,
before he acts as such, shall give a bond to the State of Maryland
in a penalty of seventy-five thousand dollars, to be approved by the
governor, with the condition that if the above bound ———— shall well
and faithfully execute his office, and shall account with the comp-
troller for, and pay to the treasurer of the State, the several 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 such obligation
to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law, the
said collector's bonds, when approved by the county commissioners,
shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of
the respective counties; when approved by the proper authorities
in the city of Baltimore, shall be recorded in the office of the clerk
of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and when approved by the
governor, shall be filed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury.

Id s 33
Collectors to
deposit in banks
designated by
treasurer.

33. Every collector of State taxes in the city of Baltimore, shall
make daily deposits of such sums of money as he shall receive
for State taxes, collected by him, less the amount of commission
allowed him for the collection of the same, to the credit of the
treasurer of the State of Maryland, in some bank in said city,
which pays to the State the bonus or school tax as provided by law,

To send state-
ment and cer-
tificate of de-
posit to
treasurer.

to be designated by the said treasurer, and shall send to the treas-
urer a statement of the amount so deposited, within the first ten
days of each month, with a certificate of the bank that the same is
so deposited, and on failure to make such daily deposits, and to

Penalty on
failure.

send such certificate, he shall, on proof thereof to the satisfaction
of the governor, be liable to removal from office by the governor,
and the comptroller shall immediately enter suit upon his bond

Id s 34
Treasurer to
make examina-
tion of books of
collector in
Baltimore city.

34. The treasurer of the State may make weekly examination
. of the books of the collector of State taxes in Baltimore city,
whose books shall always be open to such inspection.