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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

eient to pay the commissions and salary so allowed.

The said commissions and salary so allowed shall not

be retained by the treasurer out of collections made,

How paid.

but shall be paid him by check as other claims are

paid, and from time to time as such commissions and

salary shall be earned, and in no other manner; com-

missions on uneollected taxes turned over to his suc-

cessor in office shall not be allowed him, but shall be

allowed to the person, who collects the same.

SEC. 200, SUB-SEC. 9. The treasurer shall not be au-

thorized to pay any officer or "other person, being a

Not pay debtor

debtor of the county commissioners aforesaid, or owing

taxes, any salary or other claim against the county

until he shall first have deducted the account due by

such officer or other person to said commissioners, or

for taxes; on all taxes in arrear in the hands of the

treasurer for collection, he shall be charged interest

from the time when the same became due and payable

Proviso.

until collected or accounted for respectively; provided,

that said commissioners may make such exception in

cases where he is prevented from receiving interest by

reason of the pendency of judicial proceedings or

otherwise, as may be right and equitable.

SEC- 200, SUB-SEC. 10. The provisions of the Code

of Public General Laws of Maryland now in force or

hereafter enacted, applicable to collectors of state and

county taxes, except where the same are repealed by

Applicable to

this act, or are inconsistent with the provisions of this

treasurer.

act, shall be held to apply to the treasurer of said

county, who, as to his powers, rights, duties and lia-

bilities, both civil and criminal, and those of his bond

or bondsmen, shall be in all respects on a footing with

state and county collectors, except as herein provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the appoint-

ment of said treasurer, the persons then holding ap-

Collect and pay
over.

pointments, as tax collectors in said county shall pro-
ceed to collect the taxes which may be then in their

hands for collection, and when collected they shall

pay over the same to the treasurer respectively.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

When effective.

effect from the first day of April, eighteen hundred

and eighty-five, and all acts or parts of acts incon-

sistent therewith are hereby repealed; provided, that

the repeal of the acts hereinbefore mentioned, or of

any portion thereof, shall not affect or impair any suit

or penalty whatsoever now or then existing, or any