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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 413.

to exceed ten hundred dollars per annum for stamps,
clerk hire, and other expenses, and the said commissioners are
authorized and directed, in their several annual levies, to
levy an amount sufficient to pay the salary and expenses so
allowed. The said salary so allowed shall not be retained by
the treasurer out of collections made but shall be paid him by
check as other claims are paid, and from time to time as such
salary shall be earned and in no other manner.

When
salaries of
offlcers shall
be paid.

Section 43 K. The treasurer shall not be authorized to pay
any officer or other person, being a debtor of the County Com-
missioners aforsaid, or owing taxes, any salary or other claims
against the county until he shall first have deducted the
account due by such officer or other person to said commis-
sioners or for taxes ; on all taxes in arrears in the hands of the
treasurer for collection, he shall be charged interest from the
time when the same became due and payable until collected
or accounted for, respectively ; provided, that said commis-
sioners may make such exception, in cases where he is pre-
vented from receiving interest by reason of the pendency
of judicial proceedings or otherwise, as may be right and
equitable.

Provisions of
the Code of
Public
General Laws
applicable.

Section 43 L. The provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland now in force, or hereafter enacted appli-
cable to collectors of State and county taxes, except where
the same are repealed by or are inconsistent with the provis-
ions of this sub-title of this Article, shall be held to apply to
the treasurer of said county, who as to his powers, rights
duties and liabilities, 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. And
the present treasurer of Allegany county shall remain in office
until his successor shall have qualified.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
upon the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 414.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the United States Legal
Company of Baltimore City.

Name
changed

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the name of the United States Legal Com-
pany of Baltimore City be and the same is hereby changed to
the United States Legal Company, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession.