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CHAP. 344.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

land passed at the January Session of 1900, entitled an Act
providing for the election of a County Treasurer for Talbot
County, and defining the duties and powers of said Treas-
urer, and to re-enact the same with amendments and to add
two new Sections thereto to be known as Section 9 A and
Section 13 A.

Repeal
and re-enact

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 22 and 25 of
-chapter 619 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, passed at the January Session of 1900, entitled "An Act
to provide for the election of a County Treasurer for Talbot
county, and defining the duties and powers of said treasurer,"
be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, and two new sections, to be known as section 9 A
and section 13 A, be added thereto, so as to read as follows:
Section 4. And be it enacted. That the person so elected,

Oath
to be taken.

Bond
to be given .

before he enters upon the duties of his said office, shall take
an oath before the clerk of the Circuit Court for Talbot
County faithfully to perform the duties of the same, and he
shall also execute a bond to the State of Maryland in the
penalty of fifty thousand dollars for the faithful performance
of his duties of treasurer and as clerk to the County Commis-
sioners of Talbot County, and further conditioned that he shall
well and truly account for and be liable for any and all money
coming into his possession as Treasurer, or for which he shall
be answerable by law ; which bond shall be secured by a
fidelity or security company qualified to act as surety or
guarantor under the laws of the State of Maryland, and shall
be approved by the judges of the Circuit Court for Talbot
County, or a majority of them, and thereafter be recorded in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, the
cost of said bond to be borne by said county.

Levy to be
made.

Section 8. That the County Commissioners shall make their
annual levy for State and county taxes on or before the first
Tuesday in June in each and every year, and the same shall
be due and payable on the first day of January next succeed-
ing the levy thereof ; and on all county taxes paid on or before
the first day of September a discount of three per cent, shall
be allowed, and the Treasurer shall take the discount from the
tax bills for county purposes regularly in the manner afore-
said, and shall note the same upon his books and upon the
receipt for taxes so paid ; but the discount allowed on county
taxes by this section, or on State taxes provided by law, shall
not be made to any person, set of persons, or corporate insti-
tution unless the whole amount of State and county taxes due