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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

taxes by him collected, other than such sum as the

Commission-

commissioners shall designate, upon the receipt of

ers shall des-

the statement hereinbefore directed to be made

ignate.

monthly to them by the collector ; and it shall be

the duty of said commissioners in designating what

money .the said collector shall thus monthly retain

Proportion to
entire salary.

to fix such sum as will bear the same proportion to
his entire salary, that the amount of taxes collected

and by him reported bears to the whole amount

of taxes levied; and upon the final settlement of

the said commissioners with said collector it shall be

the duty of the said commissioners to authorize the

Balance of

payment to the collector such balance of his salary

salary due.

as may be due him.

SEC. 87 I. Be it enacted, That it shall be the

Duty of
State's Attor-

duty of the State's Attorney for Washington county
to institute legal proceedings against all collectors

ney.

who heretofore have failed to account with or pay

over to said county the interest by them severally

collected upon the taxes levied by said County Com-

missioners, to recover for the use of said county the

amount of interest so collected and retained by the

collectors.

SEC. 87 J. Be it enacted, That all acts and parts

Repealed.

of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same

are hereby repealed.

SEC. 87 K. Be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved January 28, 1878.

CHAPTER 4.

AN ACT to remove the limitations to the existence

of St. John's Cemetery of Howard county.

Whereas St. John's Cemetery of Howard county

Preamble.

has been duly incorporated under the act of eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter four hundred

and seventy-one, by the provisions of which the time

of its existence is limited to forty years ; and