EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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successors in office shall execute to the State of Maryland
two bonds, one for fifteen thousand dollars, conditioned for
the proper collection and payment to the State Treasurer all
State taxes placed in his hands for collection, and another
of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the proper
collection and disbursement of all monies coming into his
hands for the county, and the faithful performance of other
duties devolving upon him; such bonds to be approved as
bonds of the sheriffs of the respective counties of this State
are approved, and to be recorded in the office of the clerk of
the Circuit Court for St. Mary's county; but before entering
upon the duties of the said office the said treasurer shall
take and subscribe before said clerk the oath prescribed by
Section 6 of Article 1 of the constitution of Maryland. All
county collectors of St. Mary's county now having taxes on
hand for collection for which their bond is responsible, shall
complete said collections and turn over the money so col-
lected to the County Commissioners of said county, except
such sums as may be subject to orders heretofore given on
said collections by the County Commissioners for said county.

25 A. The said treasurer shall keep his office in Leonard-
town open from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock

CHAP. 752

Bonds
executed.

in the afternoon every working day, and for the purpose
of receiving and disbursing taxes as directed by law,
and shall also attend in person or by deputy in some point
in each election district of said county one day each in the
months of June, August and October of each year, and of
each sitting he shall give notice by advertising in two news-
papers published in said county and by handbills posted
up in three public places in each of such election districts,
stating when and the place where he will be in each of said
districts for collecting and receiving said taxes; for all

Office hours.

taxes after the first day of September succeeding the day
of their levy, due and unpaid, there shall be interest
charged at the rate of six per cent, per annum; and to
enforce the collection of taxes it shall only be necessary
for him to notify generally delinquents by advertisement
in one or more newspapers published in St. Mary's
county, and by handbills posted in three or. more public
places in each election district of said county, that their
taxes are due and in arrears, and that unless they are paid,
with all interest and costs, within twenty days from the date

Interest
charged.