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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the

Keep accu-

County Commissioners shall keep an accurate ac-

rate account.

count of the assessment, or rate of taxes assessed up-

on the taxable property of said county, and how

such assessment is disposed of, in a book to be kept

for that purpose alone; and said clerk shall, within

twenty days after such assessment, deliver a fair copy

of so much thereof as it shall be his duty to collect,

to each collector of said county.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That every collector

receiving a copy of such assessment or rate shall,

within thirty days thereafter, proceed to collect the

Levy for

same, and shall pay the same to the said Treasurer

educational

of Dorchester county, or his order, within six months

purposes.

after receiving the copy aforesaid ; and all moneys

levied for educational purposes by the said County

Commissioners shall be levied separately and dis-

tinctly from the other items of taxation, and shall in

no year be less than ten thousand dollars, and a list

thereof shall by them be furnished to the School

Make return.

Commissioners of the said county ; and the collec-

tors shall make return of all said tax collected upon

the days required by law for the return of the State

school taxes ; and if any collector shall fail to per-

form his duties as directed in this section, he shall

Liable to in-
dictment.

be liable to indictment, and on conviction thereof in

the Circuit Court for Dorchester county, shall be

fined not less than one hundred, nor more than five

hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That every collector

Shall account

of State and county taxes shall account for and pay

to the said county Treasurer two-thirds thereof re-

spectively by the first day of April succeeding the
date of the levy of said taxes, and the remaining

third by the first day of December thereafter ; pro-

Shall receive

vided, that no collector shall receive any commis-

any commis-
sions

sions, or other compensation in lieu thereof, for the

collection of any taxes remaining unpaid by him at

said last mentioned date.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That every collector

Every col-

shall on all sums paid by him to said county treas-

lector shall.

urer on or before the fifteenth day of September of

Be allowed

the year for which the taxes are levied, be allowed

deductions.

a deduction of five per cent.; on all sums paid by