364 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 199

and thirty, and on the same day and month in every fourth
year thereafter elect a suitable person of good repute and fit
business capacity to be County Treasurer for said County, who
shall execute the required bond or bonds and qualify in the
manner hereinafter provided, and shall hold his office com-
mencing on January 1, following such election for four
years or until his successor shall be elected and qualified,
and said person shall be ineligible for four years thereafter
for election to the same office; provided, however, that this
provision shall not apply in the event of the election of a
Treasurer by the County Commissioners to fill a vacancy, as
provided by Section 100.

100. 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 collectors of taxes, except as to the title of his office,
and to be similarly certified; he shall execute to the State of
Maryland such bond as is now or may hereafter be required
by law as the collector 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 approved by the County Com-
missioners of Garrett County or fifteen thousand dollars with
corporate surety with the condition that the above bounden
shall well and faithfully execute 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 moneys which he shall receive for said County, or be an-
swerable 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; and the said
bond when approved shall be recorded in the office of the clerk
of the court for Garrett County; he shall also secure and file
collateral from such bank or banks as he may use as deposi-
tories of tax funds in such amount or amounts as will be suffi-
cient to secure said deposits, which collateral shall be filed
with the State Treasurer. The County Commissioners of Gar-
rett County shall levy a sufficient sum to pay the premiums on
all surety bonds given under this section; in the case of the
default of the person so selected to qualify and execute the
bonds hereinbefore required before the expiration of twenty
days next after the first day of January 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