ART. 23.] REVENUE AND TAXES. 2073

under the provisions of said article 81 of the public general laws,
the State's attorney for said county may bid for and purchase the

same at the sale thereof, for the use of said county, if the said sale
be for the collection of taxes, if in his opinion it shall be necessary
and proper to do so for the protection of the interest of the said
county; provided, the sum bid shall in no case exceed the amount
of the State and county taxes assessed thereon, and the costs and
expenses of sale.

1883. ch. 83.

97. It shall be the duty of the collector to collect all State
and county taxes after the same shall have been due and in
arrear one year, by proceeding under the provisions of section 94.

1884. ch. 143.

98. Wicomico county is divided into five collection districts,
as follows: the first to be composed of the first (Barren creek)
and the tenth (Sharptown) election districts of said county; the
second, of the second (Quantico) and the third (Tyaskin) election
districts; the third, of the seventh (Trappe) and the eighth
(Nutter's) election districts; the fourth, of the fifth (Parsons') and
the ninth (Salisbury) election districts; and the fifth, of the
fourth (Pittsburg) and the sixth (Dennis') election districts.

Ibid

99. The county commissioners, on or before the second Tues-
day in April, in each year, shall 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 Tues-
day of May, then next succeeding, a good and sufficient bond to
be approved by the county commissioners, in a penalty double
the amount of State taxes that will be entrusted to him for
collection, and conditioned 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 commis-
sioners, in a penalty double the amount of the county taxes that
will be entrusted to him for collection, conditioned for the true
and faithful performance of his duty as collector of county taxes;
and each bond shall have at least three good securities, and each
of said collectors' bonds shall be filed in the office of the clerk of