ART. 20.] REVENUE AND TAXES. 1825

1888, ch. 137.

214. The county commissioners of said county shall, on or
before the second Tuesday in April, in each year, beginning on
the second Tuesday of April in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, appoint a collector of State and county taxes for
each of said collection districts, who shall execute to the State of
Maryland, on or before the second Tuesday of May then next
Bucceeding, a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the
county commissioners, in a penalty double the amount of the
State taxes that will be entrusted to him for collection, and con-
ditioned for the true and faithful performance of his duty as
collector, and, in like manner, on or before the second Tuesday
of June, in the same year, another bond to the State of Maryland,
to be also approved by the county commissioners, in a penalty
double the amount of the county taxes that will be entrusted to
him for collection, conditioned for the true and faithful per-
formance of his duty as collector of county taxes; and each bond
shall have at least three good securities, and each of said collec-
tor's bonds shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court for said county, a certified copy of which shall be sufficient
evidence against either of said collectors.

Ibid.

215. The duties of each of said collectors shall be to collect
and pay over to the proper officers all the State and county taxes
levied in his collection district, and to report to the county com-
missioners all new and missed property in his district liable to
taxation.

Ibid.

216. The compensation of each of said collectors shall be fixed
by the county commissioners at the time of the appointment, and
for all services rendered shall not exceed five per centum of the
whole amount of taxes collected by him.

Ibid.

217. The county commissioners, on the first Tuesday in

April in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall

appoint a clerk to said commissioners, who shall continue

said clerk for the term of one year; that is, until the first

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