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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 752

county, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his
successor is elected and qualified, to be subject to removal
for wilful neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in office, upon con-
viction in a court of law; he shall not be eligible to re-elec-
tion until after an interval of one full term, and until he
shall have fully settled up all business connected with his
former term; and until such election can be held under the
provisions of this section, J. Marshal Dent, Esq., of said
county, be and he is hereby appointed, authorized and
empowered to act as such treasurer, and to exercise all the
powers and to perform all the duties imposed by this section
and the law of this State; he shall hold said office for the
period of two years from the first Monday in the month of
July in the year 1900, and until his successors shall
be duly elected and qualified; and the persons elected to said
office under the provisions of this section shall hold the
same for two years from the first Monday in August suc-
ceeding their election; and the said J. Marshall Dent or his
successor in said office of treasurer of St. Mary's county,

Assistant
treasurer
appointed.

may appoint some person, a resident of said county, to be
assistant treasurer, who shall be authorized to act in his
place, and for whose act he shall be responsible, and he shall
give such bond to said treasurer, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duty as the said treasurer may require ;
said assistant treasurer to be paid by the county treasurer
out of the salary and commissions allowed to him for the
collection of county and State taxes in St. Mary's county.
The County Commissioners of said county shall provide
the said treasurer with proper stationery, books, blanks and
other necessary appointments for an office, which office they
shall always provide and furnish in the town of Leonard-

Salary.

town; and the treasurer appointed by this section and those to
be hereafter elected shall receive an annual salary of twelve
hundred dollars, to be paid monthly by the County Commis-
sioners of said county, and shall also be allowed the com-
missions allowed by Article 81 of the Code of Public General
Laws, title " Revenue and Taxes," for the collection of State
taxes; and the treasurer shall receive twenty-five cents for
every one hundred dollars' worth of new and unassessed
property not already on the assessment books assessed by
him and ordered by the County Commissioners to be entered
on the books of their office: and the said treasurer and his