818 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

and in not more than two, all public local laws passed at each
session of the general assembly affecting Cecil county, and made
to take effect from the date of their passage, once a week for
three successive weeks.

1886, ch. 340.

118. The county commissioners shall levy annually the amount
required to pay the interest on the bonds issued under the act of
1886, chapter 240, and also the amount necessary to redeem said
bonds as they shall mature; and the said bonds shall be exempt
from taxation for county and muncipal purposes; and said com-
missioners are forbidden to apply any portion of the taxes so
levied to any other purpose; nor shall they, in any year hereafter,
except when extraordinary circumstances may require it to be
done, exceed in their expenditures for all county purposes the
amount levied for said year; and when an emergency may com-
pel the creation of a deficiency, the same shall be plainly shown
in the annual statement of county expenses, and be levied for in
the first levy made after its creation.

COUNTY TREASURER.

1886, ch. 340.

119. At their regular meeting in the month of April in each
year, they shall appoint some person, a resident of said county,
other than the clerk to said commissioners, to be treasurer, whose
duty it shall be to collect and disburse, upon their order, all taxes
levied in Cecil county j and who shall assess all new -or missed
property in said county, and for this purpose he is clothed with all
the powers possessed by collectors of taxes under the provisions
of the code of public general laws; and the said treasurer may
appoint one or more deputies, who shall be authorized to act in
his place, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and to whom he
may pay such compensation as he shall deem proper, to be de-
ducted from his salary; and he shall receive an annual salary of
fifteen hundred dollars, twenty-five cents each for assessments of
real and personal property, and five cents per head for all dogs
and bitches returned by him to the commissioners, and ordered
by them to be entered on the books of their office; and the said
treasurer shall execute to the State of Maryland two bonds, one