1612 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

1878, ch. 468.

220. On the first Monday in May in each and every second
year, accounting from the year eighteen hundred and seventy,
eight, one person, a legal voter in said town, shall be chosen by
the voters of said town as treasurer of said corporation, to serve
for two years, and until his successor shall qualify, whose duty it
shall be to keep an account of the receipts and disbursements of
the funds of the corporation in a well-bound book, to be provided
by the commissioners for that purpose, and annually or oftener, if
required, to render to the commissioners an account thereof; bnt
before said treasurer shall enter upon the duties of his office, he
shall give bond, payable to said commissioners, in such penalty as
they may fix, with securities to be approved by them, conditioned
that he will well and faithfully account for all monies paid over
to him by the bailiff of said town, or any other person, for the
use and benefit of said corporation, and that he will also well and
truly pay to the order of said commissioners all sums of money so
received by him, and the said bond shall be recorded among the
records of said corporation; and the said treasurer shall qualify
and enter upon the duties of his office on or before the first Mon-
day in June succeeding his election, and a failure to qualify
within the time herein specified shall be deemed a refusal to
accept the office, whereupon the commissioners shall order a new
election to fill the vacancy; and it shall be the duty of the com-
missioners to cause to be issued a certificate of election to the
person receiving the highest number of votes for treasurer of said
town; and in case of a tie vote, the commissioners shall order a
new election.

Ibid.

221. The treasurer of the town shall be the collector of taxes
for the town, with power and authority to receive and collect all
taxes levied annually by the commissioners of the town, by dis-
tress, or levy and sale, upon either real or personal property of
the delinquent.

Ibid.

222. The commissioners shall have power to levy and collect
taxes in the town, not exceeding in any one year twenty cents in
the one hundred dollars worth of assessable property, which said