ART. 10.] COUNTY COLLECTORS. 1007

services otherwise than by a per centum on the amount of their
collections; and the county commissioners are further authorized
and empowered, when in their judgment they may deem it for
the best interest of the county, to make and effect temporary
loans for the use of the county, upon notes or drafts signed by
them, and countersigned by the clerk, with the seal of the office,
for sums in all not to exceed ten thousand dollars at any time,
payable with interest within six months from the negotiation of
such loan; and all such notes or drafts shall be settled in full, on
or before the first day of January of each and every year.

1878, en. 160.

109. Every collector of State and countv taxes appointed as
provided for in the preceding section, before he acts as such, shall
give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of at least
double the amount of such taxes to be collected by him, with
good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the county commis-
sioners, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his
office, according to law; and if any collector shall fail to give
bond as herein required, within thirty days after his appointment,
the county commissioners shall immediately make a new appoint-
ment in his place, and shall continue to make such appointment
until a collector shall give bond as directed; and the bonds of
said collectors, shall each be filed and recorded in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court for said county, and a duly certified
copy thereof shall be evidence in any court of law or equity in
this State.

Ibid.

110. The clerk of the county commissioners shall keep an
accurate account of the assessment, or rate of taxes assessed upon
the taxable property of said county, and how such assessment is
disposed of, in a book to be kept for that purpose alone; and said
clerk shall, within twenty days after such assessment, deliver a
fair copy of so much thereof as it shall be his duty to collect, to
each collector of said county.

Ibid.

111. Every collector receiving a copy of such assessment or
rate shall, within thirty days thereafter, proceed to collect the