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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 143.

AN ACT to provide for the speedy and prompt col-

lection of Taxes in Wicomico county.

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the county of Wicomico be and

it is hereby divided into five collection districts, as

follows : the first to be composed of the first (Barren

creek) and the tenth (Sharptown) election districts of

Divided into
collection dis-

said county; the second, of the second (Quantico) and

tricts.

the third (Tyaskin) election districts; the third, of the

seventh (Trappe) and the eighth (Nutters) election

district; the fourth, of the fifth (Parsons) and the ninth

(Salisbury) election district; and the fifth, of the fourth

(Pittsburg) and the sixth (Dennis') election districts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the county com-

missioners of said county shall, on or before the second

Appoint collec-

Tuesday in April, in each year, appoint a collector of

tor of taxes.

state and county taxes for each of said collection dis-

tricts, who shall execute to the State of Maryland, on

or before the second Tuesday of May, then next suc-

ceeding, a good and sufficient bond to be approved by

the county commissioners, in a penalty double the

amount of state taxes that will be entrusted to him

for collection, and conditioned for the true and faith-

ful performance of his duty as collector; and in like

Collector to
give bond.

manner, on or before the second Tuesday of June, in

the same year, another bond to the State of Maryland,

to be also approved by the county commissioners, in

a penalty double the amount of the county taxes that

will be entrusted to him for collection, conditioned for

the true and faithful performance of his duty as col-

lector of county taxes, and each bond shall have at

least three good securities, and each of said collectors'

bonds shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the

circuit court for said county, a certified copy of which

shall be sufficient evidence in a suit against either of

said collectors.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the duties of said

collectors shall be to collect and pay over to the

Duties of col-

proper officers all the state and county taxes levied in

lectors.

his collection district, and to report to the county com-

missioners all new and missed property in his district

liable to taxation.