WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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case shall be in accordance with the provisions of sec-

tion seventy-one and seventy-two of article eleven of

the Revised Code of the Public Laws of Maryland

so far as the same may be applicable; the office of

any collector of taxes against whom or whose bond

May be de -
clared vacant.

judgment shall be entered as aforesaid may be de-

clared vacant by the county commissioners, and

said vacancy filled by the appointment of another

collector.

SECTION 49. For the purpose of enabling the county

commissioners of that county to pay the said officers,

jurors and witnessess who may be in attendance upon

the sessions of the Circuit Court for said county

during the balance of the year eighteen hundred and

eighty-two, and to pay arrearages of expenses already

incurred and not paid by the attendance of said

officers, jurors and witnesses, their allowance in cash,

without thereby increasing materially the tax levy

of said county, the said county commissioners are

hereby authorized, from time to time, as may be

Authorized
to borrow.

necessary, to borrow not exceeding five thousand

dollars, and to that end they are empowered to issue

the bonds of said county in sums of not less than one

hundred dollars, bearing not exceeding five per cent.

interest, payable semi-annually on the first of April

and the first of October respectively, the said bonds

to be payable at the end of twenty years, but redeem-

Bonds—when
payable.

able at the pleasure of said commissioners, in whole

or in part, at any time after five years; the said bonds

to be signed by the said commissioners, counter-

signed and registered by the clerk and treasurer of

said board; not to be sold for less than the par value

thereof; to be exempt from all taxation, and the

interest thereon shall be received by the collectors

in payment of county taxes, and the said commis-

sioners shall, from time to time, levy in advance

upon the assessable property of said county such

sums as may be necessary for the prompt payment

of the semi annual interest due on said bonds, and

also for the payment of the principal thereof when

the same may become due, or when they desire to

redeem the same; all moneys received from the sale

of said bonds shall be paid to the said treasurer,

To whom paid.

and all money levied for the payment of the prin-

cipal and interest of the same shall be levied for the

use of said treasurer; and any collector failing to