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recovered, the sum of fifty dollars, together with the costs

of the suit ; and such penalty, when recovered, shall be

placed to the credit of the county commissioners.

125. It shall be the duty of the clerk to the county com-

missioners to pay the certificate of attendance of such jurors,

Clerk, to

State's witnesses, criers and bailiffs of the Circuit Court

pay.

when presented to him for payment, and upon his failure to

pay any such certificate when so presented by the person to

whom the same was issued, said clerk to the county commis-

sioners shall forfeit and pay to every such person for every

such failure, the sum of five dollars ($5.00), to be recovered

by said party in his own name as other small debts are

recorded before a justice of the peace, together with the

costs of suit.

Certificate

126. A certificate signed by the clerk of the Circuit Court,

and expressing the number of days any juror, State's witness,

crier or bailiff may have attended, and the sum due him for

such attendance, shall be sufficient authority to the clerk of

the county commissioners to pay the amount specified therein.

218. All county taxes shall be due on the first day of

September of the year for which they are levied, and if not

Taxes
when

paid on or before that date, shall bear interest at the rate of

due

six per centum per annum until paid, and at any time after

the first day of January next succeeding the date of the

levy, and not before, payment may be enforced by the col-

lectors of taxes by suit, distraint, sale or other proceedings

now allowed by law.

219. The several collectors of taxes for the respective col-

lection districts of Montgomery County shall, on or before

Duties of

the first Thursday of each and every month, pay over to the

collector
New sec-

clerk to the county commissioners of said county all State

tion

and county taxes collected by them up to date, with such

interest as they may have collected ; and upon obtaining

from said clerk to the county commissioners his receipt for

the same as prescribed by clause E, of section 62 of this

article shall deliver up to said clerk to the county commis-

sioners all county orders received by them in payment of

taxes or otherwise. And said clerk to the county commis-

sioners may, upon the order of the county commissioners,

and not otherwise, allow in such monthly settlements, the

commissions, now by law allowed said collectors upon the

amount of money and orders so as aforesaid paid over to

said clerk to the county commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That an additional section be,

New

and the same is hereby added to said article sixteen to

sections.

be called section two hundred and twenty, and to read as

follows :