ART. 12.] COUNTY TREASURER. 1231

give bond and qualify as hereinafter directed, and shall hold his
office two years or until his successor is appointed and qualified,

except as hereinafter, provided, and shall be re-eligible thereto,
and shall be subject to removal from his said office at any time
by the county commissioners for any wilful neglect of duty or
misbehavior in office. The said treasurer shall be the collector
of all State taxes and of all county taxes for whatsoever purpose
levied, or to be levied for or within said county during the term
of his office, or that may be placed in his hands for collection;
and he shall have full power, and it shall be his duty to receive
and collect all State and county taxes levied as aforesaid, and so
put in his hands for collection, and all moneys which may be due
said county, with full power to enforce the payment of the same by
sale or otherwise, as hereinafter prescribed, and to convey title to
any real or personal estate sold by him for the payment of State or
county taxes, in the manner as prescribed by the succeeding
sections; and all taxes levied in said county after the first day of
January, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for State and

county purposes, shall be collected by the county treasurer.

1888, ch. 515.

44. The person so appointed, before he enters upon the duties
of his said office, shall take an oath before the clerk of the

circuit court for said county in form similar to that now taken by

collectors of taxes, except as to the title of his office, and to be
similarly certified; he shall execute to the State of Maryland such
bond as is now or may hereafter be required by law as the
collector of State taxes, which bond shall be approved and filed
in like manner as other bonds of collectors of State taxes; and he
shall execute to the State of Maryland a separate bond in the
penal sum of thirty thousand dollars, with at least three sureties,
to be approved by the county commissioners of Garrett county,

with the condition that if the above bounden —— shall well and
fiaithfully execute his office of treasurer of Garrett county, and
shall account for and pay to the county commissioners of said
county, or their order, the several sums which he shall receive
for said county, or be answerable for by law, at such time and in
such manner as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be