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ART. 22.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 1941
county taxes paid during the month of November, a discount of
one-half of one per centum shall be made; and on all county
taxes paid during the month of December, no discount shall be
made, but the full amount thereof, without interest, shall be col-
lected ; all county taxes remaining unpaid after the expiration of
the month of December, shall bear interest from the first day of
the following month of January, and such interest shall be
charged and collected and placed to the credit of the county., as
well as the principal of the taxes thus received; and the books of
the collector shall be so kept as to show the amount assessed to
each individual, the date of the payment thereof, and the amount
received as interest.
1878, ch. 3.
103. The collector shall enter on books kept for the purpose,
accounts of all taxes to be collected by him, with the names of
the owners of the property so taxed, the particulars thereof, and
the rate and amount due on the same, and shall place thereon,
with proper dates, all credits, whether for money received, trans-
fers, insolvencies, discounts or abatements; and it shall be the
further duty of the collector to enter alphabetically on his ledger
the entire account of each taxpayer in one place, so that the
whole may be seen and examined by the several persons to whom
the property is assessed
Ibid.
104. All orders or warrants drawn upon said collector by the
county commissioners shall be signed by the president and clerk
of said board, except those issued to pay persons the money
specifically levied for their use, which latter orders or warrants
shall be signed by the clerk of said board; and it shall not be
lawful for the said collector to make any payments whatever,
except by order or warrant drawn by said commissioners and
signed as hereinbefore provided for, or except by the order of the
clerk of the circuit court for said county, for the payment of
witnesses, jurors, talesmen, court crier and bailiffs of said court,
and each order or warrant shall state the purpose for which it
is given, and shall embrace but one class of expenditure.
Ibid.
105. On the first Tuesday of each month the collector shall
report to the county commissioners the amount of money, prin-
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