1232 GARRETT COUNTY. [ART. 12.

void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law;
and the said bond, when approved, shall be recorded in the office
of the clerk of the circuit court for Garrett county. In case of
the default of the person so appointed to qualify and execute the
bonds hereinbefore required within twenty days after his
appointment, or in the event of the treasurer's removal from said
county, or his death or resignation during his term of office, the
county commissioners shall at once proceed to fill such vacancy
by the appointment of a competent person for the remainder of
the term, who shall, within twenty days from the date of his
appointment, qualify and bond as hereinbefore directed; and the
county commissioners shall continue, after twenty days, to make
such appointment until a treasurer shall qualify and bond as
aforesaid; provided, that such new treasurer so taking the place
made vacant by removal, death or resignation, shall not collect
nor take charge of any of the taxes that may be in the hands of
such late treasurer uncollected, and for which the bond of such
late treasurer is responsible, except as herein otherwise provided;
but such taxes shall be collected under existing laws applicable to
collector of State and county taxes, when there is a death or
resignation. The sureties on any treasurer's bonds shall, when,
so required by said commissioners, make oath in due form of
law, respectively, that they are the owners in their own right of
real estate situated in said county equal, at least, over and above
their debts and liabilities, in value to the amount of the bond.
The said commissioners may at any time demand of any treas-
urer such other or further bond, with such other or further
security as in their judgment the interest of the State may
require.

1888, ch. 515.

45. The county commissioners shall provide and furnish the
treasurer an office in the court-house building, or in some other
building as near to the same as possible, in the town of Oakland,
which office shall be plainly designated by external sign as the
office of the county treasurer; and it shall be the duty of the
treasurer to keep his said office open from nine o'clock in the
forenoon until three o'clock in the afternoon, and to attend
therein for the transaction of business in person, or by deputy, on
every day in the week, except Sundays and legal holidays, and.