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interest from that date, at the rate of six per centum per annum.
This section shall not apply to Garrett county.
Wheeler v. Addison, 54 Md. 41.

Collectors' Commissions.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 81, secs. 75-76. 1843, ch. 208, sec. 21. 1845, ch. 203, sec. 4.
1868, ch. 366. 1874. ch. 483, sec 67. 1876, ch. 372. 1888, ch. 515.

68. The county commissioners and the mayor and city council
of Baltimore, shall levy upon their respective counties and the
city of Baltimore, such commission as will, in their judgment,
insure a speedy collection of said taxes, not exceeding five per
centum on the amount to be placed in the hands of said collec-
tors for the counties for collection, except in Calvert county,
where it shall not exceed six per centum, and not exceeding two
per centum on the amount to be placed in the hands of said
collector for the city of Baltimore; said commission to be levied
for the use of said collectors, respectively, and to be collected as
other charges are collected. The governor shall fix the commis-
sion of collectors appointed by him, not to exceed ten per centum
on the amount placed in their hands for collection; and the said
commissions shall be levied by the county or city authorities, or
by the tax board, and collected by said collectors. This section
shall not apply to Harford county, nor to Garrett county.

Seidenstricker v. State, 2 Gill, 374.

Collectors' Default-Suit on Bond.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 81, sec. 77. 1841, ch. 23, sec. 48. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 68.

69. If any collector shall fail to pay into the treasury the
amount of money which may or should be in his hands for the
use of the State, at the time hereinbefore specified for payment,
he shall be charged interest thereon at the rate of six per centum
per annum, from the time the said money became due and payable.

Ibid. sec. 78. 1842, ch. 269, sec. 8. 1846, ch. 175. 1852, ch. 56, sec. 7.
1874, ch. 483, sec. 69.

7d In all cases in which any collector shall fail to pay the
amount due and payable by him into the treasury, at the time
hereinbefore specified, the comptroller may, in his discretion,
order a suit upon his bond.