EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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town taxes collected by him under the annual levy during
the previous month, and such settlement shall be entered in
full in the minutes of the Council; on or before the first day
of January next succeeding a levy he shall make final settle-
ment with the town treasurer of so much of the annual levy
as is charged to or due from persons who are assessed with
personal property only upon the assessment book of the
town; on or before the first day of March next after the
levy he shall pay over to the town treasurer not less than
two-thirds of the entire annual levy, and he shall also return
a partial list of insolvents; and on or before the first day of
September next thereafter, the same being about one year
after the levy, he shall turn in his final list of insolvents and
shall make a full and complete settlement with the treasurer
of the annual levy placed in his hands for collection. After
he has paid to the town treasurer any charge for taxes
included in the levy he shall be entitled to enforce payment
of the same in all respects as if the Mayor and Council had
not been paid. Besides the mode in this charter provided
for enforcing the payment of taxes by distress or execution
he may, after he has paid to the town treasurer any claim
or account for taxes which has not been paid to him by the
party or parties against whom the same is charged, bring
an action at law for money paid for the party liable
for the taxes, if he so elects, and he may maintain
such action as long as the account or claim is not barred by
limitation, without regard to the expiration of his official
term or the extension of his time. He shall within twenty

CHAP. 49

days after his appointment execute a bond to the State of
Maryland in the penalty of two thousand dollars, or for such
greater sum as the Mayor and Council may designate at or
about the time of his appointment, with a surety or sureties
approved by the Mayor and Council, which approval shall
be endorsed on the bond and signed by the Mayor and at
least two of the Councilmen. This bond shall be recorded
among the general records of the town by the town clerk,
and also in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Worcester county, where he shall be retained. It shall be
recorded therein as other official bonds, and a copy thereof
duly certified by said clerk shall be admissible as evidence
in any of the courts of this State, as well as the original,
but the failure to record the bond or to endorse said approval

Bond to be
executed .