1826 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.

Tuesday in April in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, at
which time the said county commissioners shall elect his suc-
cessor for the term of two years, as aforesaid, and so on every two
years thereafter; which said clerk shall be the treasurer of said
board, and, as such, shall receive all money that shall be collected
by the said collectors of county taxes, and all other money due
the county, and shall pay out all money so received on the order
of the county commissioners; and he shall open an account with
each collector in a book kept for that purpose, charging him with
the whole amount of county assessment in his district, and such
other money as may be due therefrom to the county, and credit-
ing him by amounts paid in; and he shall demand prompt pay-
ment by collectors, make settlements with them, and report such
collectors as may be in default, to the commissioners; provided,
that in settlements made with collectors he shall not allow any
delinquencies and insolvencies without an order for such allow-
ances by the commissioners; he shall also keep an account, in a
proper book, between himself and the commissioners, and charge
himself with moneys received from all sources, naming them,
and credit himself with amounts paid out, and keep on file the
orders of the commissioners as vouchers for the correctness of his
disbursements; and he shall keep the commissioners' office open
from nine A. M. to four P. M., each day, Sundays and holidays
excepted; and his compensation as clerk and treasurer shall be
seven hundred dollars per year; and the county commissioners
shall have power to fill any vacancy, however occurring, when-
ever the same happens, and may remove said clerk for any in-
competency or failure to perform any of his duties.

1888, ch. 137.

218. The term of office of said clerk and treasurer shall
expire with the term of the board of county commissioners by
whom he was appointed, or until his successor is elected and
qualified; and the said clerk, before entering on the duties of
his office, shall give bond to the State of Maryland, in the pen-
alty of twenty thousand dollars, with at least two good sureties,
conditioned that he will truly and faithfully perform all and
singular the duties of him required, or which may be required by
the constitution and laws of this State, which said bond, to be