ART. 81] COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS. 1809

certificate thereof, under seal, shall be filed with the county
commissioners, or register of the city of Baltimore, as the
case may be. This section shall not apply to Garrett or
Talbot counties.
Davidson v. Brice, 91 Md. 686.

1888, art. 81, sec. 37. 1860, art. 81, sec. 37. 1842, ch. 269, sec. 5
1874, ch. 483, sec. 36. 1888, ch. 515. 1900, ch. 619.

37. If any collector shall fail to give bond as herein
required within twenty days after his appointment, the county
commissioners or mayor and city council of Baltimore, as the
case may be, shall immediately appoint another in his place
and shall continue after twenty days to make such appointment
until a collector shall give bond as directed. This section shall
not apply to Talbot county.

Ibid. sec. 38. 1860, art. 81, sec. 38. 1843, ch. 208, sec. 20.
1865, ch. 155. 1874, ch. 483, sec 37.

38. The clerks of the county commissioners and the register
of the city of Baltimore shall annually, on or before the first
day of May, inform the governor whether there is in their
several counties and the said city, a collector or collectors of
the State taxes, duly appointed in conformity with the provis-
ions of this article and shall state whether a per centum of the
said collections has been allowed said collectors for their ser-
vices as therein provided; and if so, to what extent.

Ibid. sec. 39. 1860, art. 81, sec. 39. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 1. 1865, ch. 155.
1868, ch. 366. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 38.

39. If there be no collector of State taxes qualified and
compensated in conformity with the foregoing provisions, in
any of the counties or in said city, by the fifteenth day of May
in any year, the governor shall appoint from any part of the
State a collector or collectors for said county or the said city,
who shall give bond with sureties to be approved by the gov-
ernor, which shall be in all respects on a footing with other
State collectors' bonds as provided in this article, and the
said collector shall have all the powers of other collectors.

Milburn v. State, 1 Md. 17.

Ibid. sec. 40. 1860, art. 81, sec. 40. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 3.
1874, ch. 483, sec 39.

40. If any collector, appointed under the preceding section,
shall fail to give bond within thirty days, the governor shall