ART. 9.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND TREASURER. 925
gers, jurors and witnesses, for the terms of the circuit court for
one year next succeeding the first day of January after said levy;.
and their failure to do so shall be deemed a misdemeanor, for
which they shall be individually liable to punishment by fine or
imprisonment, or both, upon trial and conviction in the circuit,
court for said county, as in case of other misdemeanors; and it
shall be the duty of the said treasurer, thirty days before each
term of the circuit court for said county, to draw a requisition,
upon any collector of the county taxes, in whose hands said levy
or portions thereof may have been placed for collection, for such,
sum as said treasurer may deem necessary to meet the expenses
of said term of court, and the said collector shall forthwith pay
over to the said treasurer the amount of said requisition; if said
collector fails to pay the sum so required on or before the first
day of the term of the circuit court succeeding the date of said
requisition, it shall be the duty of the said treasurer to forthwith
give to the State's attorney, or to some other attorney, a state-
ment of the account of said collector, and a certificate of the
amount in default under said requisition, signed and sworn to;
and thereupon it shall be the duty of said attorney to docket a
suit on or before the third day of the said term of court then in-
session, and the sheriff shall forthwith serve and return the
summons in said case; said suit shall be brought against the bond
of the said collector, for the use of the said treasurer, and on
motion being made in his behalf, the court shall forthwith enter
judgment at said term of court at which said suit shall be-
brought, against the eaid collector and his sureties, and execution
shall issue thereon without stay, right of appeal or supersedeas;
and the pleadings in said case shall be in accordance with the
provisions of the code of public general laws relating to suits
against collectors of taxes and their sureties, so far as the same
may be applicable; the office of any collector of taxes against
whom or whose bond judgment shall be entered as aforesaid,
may be declared vacant by the county commissioners, and said
vacancy filled by the appointment of another collector.
1882, ch. 464.
56. The bonds issued under the act of 1882, chapter 454, shall
be exempt from all taxation, and the interest thereon shall be re-
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