1546 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 614
CHAPTER 614.
(Senate Bill 154)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
117 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County", sub-
title "County Treasurer and Taxes", as amended by
Chapter 780 of the Acts of 1945, relating to the com-
pensation of tax collectors for Allegany County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 117 of Article 1 of the Code of Public'Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County",
sub-title "County Treasurer and Taxes", as amended by
Chapter 780 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

117. The Tax Collectors for each of said Collection
Districts shall have been bona fide residents of the several
Election Districts for which they shall have been appointed
for at least five years before their appointment, and shall
be at least twenty-five years of age, and shall not be
related directly or collaterally within the third degree (nor
married to any one so related) to any member of the
Board of County Commissioners, making such appoint-
ment, and the said Collector shall not be eligible for re-
election for the term next ensuing; and each of said Col-
lectors before entering upon the discharge of his or her
duties shall give bond conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of his or her duties in the collection of State and
County Taxes in the penalty and with the conditions as
now provided for Tax Collectors Bonds by Sections 54 and
55 of Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws of the
State of Maryland, with personal or corporate surety or
sureties as to his bond for County Taxes to be approved
by the County Commissioners, except that the penalty in
the said bond of said Collector for the collection of County
Taxes for the First Tax Collection District shall be in the
sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars; the penalty in the
bond of said Collector for the Collection of County Taxes
for the Second Tax Collection District, shall be in the sum
of Fifty Thousand Dollars, and the penalty in the bond of
said Collector for the Collection of County Taxes for the
Third Tax Collection District, shall be in the sum of Fifty
Thousand Dollars; and the said County Commissioners
at their April Session in the year 1943, and each four