624 CALVERT COUNTY. [ART. 5.
on which the same is growing, and cut down and carry away the
quantity of timber purchased, having first given ten days' notice
to the collector or deputy collector, of the time of so doing; and
the collector or his deputy shall attend on the land at the time
specified, and take a receipt from the purchaser for the amount
of timber sold, and return the same to the county commissioners,
to be recorded among their proceedings.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 5, sec. 78.
132. If any such person shall take, cut or carry away from
off said lands a greater quantity of timber than he purchased at
such sale, he shall forfeit and pay for every cord of wood or hun-
dred of fence rails so cut, taken and carried away above the
quantity purchased, the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered
before a justice of the peace, the one-half to the informer and the
other half to the owner of the land; and shall also be liable to
the owner of the land for the damage done.
1888, ch. 310.
133. The collectors of taxes for Calvert county shall be re-
sponsible, after one year from the date of their appointment, for
all sums of money placed in their hands for collection; and the
county commissioners of said county shall allow to said collectors,
in their settlement with the county, no insolvencies nor amounts
for erroneous assessments or uncollectible taxes after one year
from the date, respectively, of their appointment.
ibid.
134. When a tax collector shall receive a county order, or
certificate in payment of taxes, said county order shall not be
allowed in his account unless it shall have endorsed upon the
same the name of person to whom the same was issued, as also
the name of person from whom said collector received the same.
P. L. L., (1880,) art. 5, sec. 79.
135. The property of the protestant episcopal church in
Calvert county shall be exempt from the payment of county
taxes
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