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such deceased persons to remove them, the said commissioners
shall have said remains removed to some suitable place, and to
record a full account of all such removals on their minutes of
proceedings, and after such removal, they shall proceed as men-
tioned in the three preceding sections.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 44.

64. The clerk, bailiffs and other officers, before entering
upon the duties of their office, shall severally make oath before
one of said commissioners that they will faithfully and impar-
tially perform the duties of their respective offices according to
the best of their skill and judgment, without favor, partiality or
prejudice.

1884, ch. 38.

65. The clerk of the county commissioners is authorized and
required, under the penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recov-
ered on presentment or indictment in the circuit court for Kent
county, to make out an assessment of all the real and personal
property within the limits of said town, (bank stocks, bonds, notes
and other evidences of debt excepted,) and the names of the
persons assessed therewith, and to furnish the same to the com-
missioners of said town between the tenth day of July and the
tenth day of August in each year; and the said commissioners
may levy on the property so assessed such sum of money as they
may deem necessary, not exceeding thirty-five cents in the hun-
dred dollars in any one year, and may appoint and qualify a
person to collect the same; and if the collector of the county
taxes for the election or other district in which Chestertown is
situated, shall be appointed, it shall not be lawful for him to
decline receiving and acting upon said appointment, or to refuse
to execute his bonds for the performance of said duty, as pro-
vided in the succeeding section.

1864, ch. 277.

66. The commissioners of Chestertown may appoint the col-
lector of taxes for Kent county, or of the district of which Ches-
tertown forms a part, to collect-the corporation tax of said town
from time to time ; and the collector so appointed shall be bound
to give bond and collect the said taxes according to the terms