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CHAPTER 543.
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AN ACT to provide f or the speedy and prompt col lection of taxes
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in Worcester county.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That the county of Worcester be and the same is hereby divided
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into three collection districts for the collection of taxes, as fol-
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lows : the first to be composed of Saint Martin's, (No. 5,) East
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To divide.
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Berlin, (No. 3) and West Berlin, (No. 9,) election districts; the
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second of Newark, (No. 4,) Coulbourn's, (No. 6,) Snow Hill,
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(No. 2) and Stockton, (No. 8,) election districts, and the third of
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Newtown, (No. 1,) and Atkinson, (No. 7,) election districts.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the county commissioners of
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said county shall, on the second Tuesday in April, or as soon
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thereafter as may be practicable in each year, beginning on the
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second Tuesday of April, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
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two, appoint a collector of State and county taxes for each of said
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collection districts, who shall execute to the State of Maryland,
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on or before the second Tuesday of May then next ensuing, a
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good and sufficient bond to be approved by the county commis-
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sioners, in a penalty double the amount of State taxes that will
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be entrusted to him for collection, and conditioned for the true
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Collectors..
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and faithful performance of his duty as collector of State taxes,
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and in like manner, on or before the second Tuesday of June in
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the same year, another bond to the State of Maryland to be also
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approved by the county commissioners in a penalty double the
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amount of the county taxes that will be entrusted to him for col-
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lection conditioned for the true and faithful performance of his
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duty as collector of county taxes, and each bond shall have at
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least three good securities, and each of said collector's bonds shall
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be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
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for said county, a certified copy of which shall be sufficient evi-
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dence in any suit in said bond.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the duties of said collectors
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shall be to collect and pay over to the proper officers, all State
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Duties'
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and county taxes levied in their respective collection districts, and
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to report to the county commissioners all untaxed property in said
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districts liable to taxation.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the compensation of said col-
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