LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

17. All taxes levied under section fifteen shall become due
and demandable on the first day of the succeeding July, and
all unpaid taxes shall be chargeable with interest from that

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date, and the chief bailiff shall, within ten days after the
receipt of the list and warrant, render to each person named
therein an account or tax bill, showing the amount due by him,
if he be a resident of the town, and if he be a non-resident,
and in consequence thereof cannot be conveniently served
with said account or tax bill, he shall give public notice of
such account or tax bill, and may, unless the same be paid
within one hundred and twenty days after the delivery or pub-
lication of such account, collect the same with all costs, by dis-
tress and sale of the real and personal property of the delin-
quent at public auction, after giving at least ten days' public
notice of such sale in some newspaper published in Caroline
county.

When taxes
due.

19. That the chief bailiff shall make all collections of taxes
and pay them over to the treasurer, who shall receive all
money paid for the use and benefit of the corporation. The
treasurer shall keep an account of the receipts and disburse-
ments of the funds of the corporation in a well-bound book to
be provided by the commissioners for that purpose, and shall
render an account to the commissioners when required by them
for all moneys received by him, and shall promptly pay to the
order of the commissioners, under such regulations as they may
prescribe, all sums of money so received by him. The bailiff
shall receive for his services as collector of taxes, such compen-
sation as the commissioners may direct, not exceeding ten per
cent, of his collections.

23. That any fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this
charter, or any ordinance of the commissioners, may be col-

Duty of
bailiff.

lected by proceedings in the name of the commissioners before
the president of the commissioners or a justice of the peace ;
and the said president or justice of the peace shall have the
power to commit the offender to the county jail on failure to
pay such fines and forfeitures, until the same shall be paid with
costs, and one-half of all tines, penalties and forfeitures aris-
ing under this charter or any ordinance, rules and regulations
passed by said town commissioners, shall be turned over to the
town treasurer for town purposes and the remaining one-half
retained by the bailiff.

Recovery of
penalties.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 4, 1896.
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Effective.