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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 549

qualified; subject, however, to removal for cause and upon
notice as hereinafter provided.
Section 213. The town treasurer shall receive all money
that may be collected for taxes, licenses, fines, or from other

Receive all
money
collected
for taxes, etc

sources, either directly or through the tax collector, the town
clerk or the policeman, and shall credit each item and shall
deposit the same in bank to his credit as town treasurer; and
the shall keep a true and accurate account of the town's
finances in well-bound books kept exclusively for that pur-
pose, and he shall make monthly reports to the Council of
his receipts, disbursements and balances, which shall be
recorded in the minutes; and all money so received by the
treasurer shall be paid out only upon his check drawn in
obeyance to written order of the town clerk, approved in
writing by the Mayor. Before entering upon the duties of

Oath taken
and bond
given.

his office he shall take and subscribe the oath hereinbefore
provided for and shall give bond to the State of Maryland in
the penalty of not less than five thousand dollars, to be
approved by the Mayor and Council in all respects as the
bond of the tax collector is hereinafter required to be
approved, and conditioned for the good and faithful dis-
charge by him of all the duties appertaining to his said
office of town treasurer of Pocomoke City imposed upon him
by the charter, the ordinances and the requirements of the
Mayor and Council; and said bonds shall be recorded among
the general records of the town and also in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester county, and there
it shall be retained, and his books shall be subject to the
inspection of the Mayor and Councilmen, and the Mayor
and Councilmen may at any time cause said books to be
audited. The failure to approve the bond of the town
treasurer, or to record the same as above required shall not
affect the validity of the bond or the liability of any person
signing the same, and a certified copy of the record may be
offered in evidence as well as the original.
Section 214. The policeman shall be vested and clothed
with all the power and authority of a constable, and any

Duties of
policeman.

one resisting him in the discharge of his duty shall be liable
upon conviction in the Circuit Court for Worcester county,
or before any justice of the peace for said county, in the
same manner and to the same extent as if he had resisted a
constable; shall also collect the dog taxes and street taxes