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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

county taxes levied as aforesaid and so placed in his hands for

collection, and all moneys which may be due to said county with

full power to enforce the payment of the same by sale or other-

wise as hereinafter prescribed, and to convey a good legal title to

any real or personal estate sold by him for the payment of State

and county taxes in the manner provided in the succeeding sec-

tions.

43. The person elected treasurer, before he enters upon the

duties of his said office, shall take an oath before the clerk of the

circuit court for said county in form similar to that taken by col-

lectors of taxes, except as to the title of his office, and to be simi-

larly certified; he shall execute to the State of Maryland such

bond as is now or may hereafter be required by law as the collec-

tor of State taxes, which bond shall be approved and filed in like

manner as other bonds of collectors of State taxes; and he shall

execute to the State of Maryland a separate bond in the penal sum

of thirty thousand dollars, with at least three sureties to be ap-

proved by the county commissioners of Garrett county, with the

condition that the above bounden — shall well and faithfully exe-

cute his office of treasurer of Garrett county, and shall account

for and pay to the county commissioners of said county or their

order, the several sums of money which he shall receive for said

county, or be answerable for by law at such time and in such

manner as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be

void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law ;

Bond

and the said bond when approved shall be recorded in the office

of the clerk of the court for Garrett county; in case of the de-

fault of the person so selected to qualify and execute the bonds

hereinbefore required before the expiration of twenty days next

after the third Tuesday in April when his term of office should

begin, or in the event of the treasurer's removal from the county,

or his removal from office, or his death or resignation during his

term of office, the 'county commissioners shall at once proceed to

fill such vacancy by the election of a competent person for the

remainder of the term, who shall within twenty days from the

date of his election, qualify and bond as hereinbefore directed;

and the county commissioners shall continue after twenty days to

make such election until a treasurer shall qualify and bond as

aforesaid; provided, that such new treasurer so taking the place

made vacant by removal, death or resignation, shall not collect

nor take charge of any of the taxes that, may be in the hands of

such late treasurer uncollected, and for which the bond of such

late treasurer is responsible, except as herein otherwise provided ;

but such taxes shall be collected under existing laws applicable

to collectors of State and county taxes when there is a death or

resignation; the sureties on any treasurer's bonds shall, when so

required by said commissioners, make oath in due form of law,

respectively, that they are the owners in their own right of real