1806 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

charge of their duties, not exceeding twenty days, to be levied
by them on the county or city for which they may be appointed,
and collected for their use by the collector of State taxes
thereof.

1888, art. 81, sec. 30. 1860, art. 81, sec. 32. 1841, ch. 23, sec. 54.
1874, ch. 483, sec. 29.

30. The clerks of the county commissioners and the register
of the city of Baltimore shall, immediately after the imposi-
tion of a tax for the use of the State, transmit by mail to the
comptroller a certificate stating that such tax was imposed and
the date of the imposition thereof, the amount of the assessable
property liable thereto, and the name or names of the collector
or collectors thereof, with a copy of his or their bond or bonds,
together with their postoffice address.

Collectors and Collections.

Ibid. sec. 31. 1860, art. 81, sec. 33. 1842, ch. 269, sec. 1. 1865, ch.

155. 1868, ch. 366. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 30. 1876, ch 372.

1888, ch. 515. 1898, ch. 123, sec. 25. 1900, ch. 619.

31. The county commissioners of the several counties shall,
on or before the third Tuesday in April in each year, or as soon
thereafter as may be, appoint a collector or collectors for their
respective counties for the collection of all State taxes levied or
to be levied for the current year; and it shall not be lawful for
the local authorities of the said counties to provide any fixed
annual or other stated compensation for the collection of State
taxes; nor shall the county commissioners provide a salary of
any kind, or any other compensation, to the said collectors for
their services in collecting the State and county taxes, otherwise
than by a per centum on the amount of their collections as
contemplated in this article. This section shall not apply to
Harford, Garrett nor Talbot counties. In and for Baltimore
city the collector shall be appointed in the mode prescribed by
the "new charter" thereof, viz., act of 1898, chapter 123,
sections 25 and 42. (P. L. L., article 4, sections 25 and 42.)
Crane v. State, 1 Md 27. Humphrey v. State, 17 Md. 57. McCauley v.
State, 21 Md. 573.

Ibid. sec. 32. 1860, art. 81, sec. 34. 1794, ch. 53, sec. 1. 1841, ch. 23,

secs 45-52. 1865, ch. 155. 1868, ch. 366. 1870, ch. 325. 1872, ch. 449.

1874, ch. 483, sec. 31. 1888, ch. 515. 1900, chs. 116, 619. 1902, ch. 8.

32. Every collector of county taxes before he acts as such
shall give bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty of double