ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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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

forty thousand dollars, with at least three sureties to

be approved by the county commissioners aforesaid,

with the condition that if the above bounden ......

shall well and faithfully execute his office of treasurer

of Anne Arundel county, and shall account for and

pay to the county commissioners of said county, or

their order, the several sums which he shall receive

for said county, or be answerable 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 re-

main in full force and virtue in law; and the said

bonds, when approved, shall be recorded in the office

Bonds recorded

of the clerk of the circuit court for Anne Arundel

county. In case of the default of the person so ap-

pointed to quality and execute the bonds hereinbefore

required, within twenty days after his appointment,

or in the event of the treasurer's removal from said

county, or his death or resignation during his term of

office, the county commissioners of said county shall

In case of va-

declare said office vacant, and at once proceed to

cancy.

fill the same by the appointment of a suitable person

for the remainder of the term, who shall, within

twenty days from the date of his appointment, qualify

and bond as hereinbefore directed, and said commis-

sioners shall continue, after every twenty days, to

make such appointment until a treasurer shall qualify

and bond as aforesaid; provided, that such new treas-

Proviso.

urer, so taking the place made vacant by removal,

death or resignation, shall not collect nor take charge

of any of the taxes that may be in the hands of such late

treasurer uncollected, and for which the bond of such

late treasurer is responsible, except as herein otherwise

provided, but such taxes shall be collected under the

existing laws applicable to collectors of state and

county taxes, where there is a death or resignation ;

the sureties on any treasurer's bond shall, when so re-

quired by said commissioners, make oath in due form

of law respectively that they are the owners in their

own right of real estate, situated in said county, equal,

at least, over and above their debts and liabilities, in