246 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 144
CHAPTER 144.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
117 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Allegany County, " sub-title "County
Treasurer and Taxes, " as enacted by Chapter 423 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1927, and re-enacting the same with
amendments providing for the compensation of Tax Col-
lectors 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, title "Allegany County, "
sub-title "County Treasurer and Taxes, " as enacted by
Chapter 423 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1927, providing for the compensation of Tax Col-
lectors for Allegany County, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as
follows:

Section 117. The Tax Collectors for each of said Tax
Collection Districts shall have been bona fide residents of
the several collection districts for which they shall have
been appointed for at least five years before their appoint-
ment, 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 anyone so related) to any member
of the Board of County Commissioners, making such ap-
pointment; and the said Collectors shall not be eligible for
re-election for the term next ensuing; and each of said
Collectors before entering upon the discharge of his or her
duties shall give bond conditioned for the faithful per-
formance 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 Section 32 of Article
81 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of
Maryland, with personal or corporate surety or sureties to
be approved by the County Commissioners, except that the
penalty in the said bond of said Collector for the collection of
the County taxes for the First Tax Collection District shall
be in the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars; the pen-
alty 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