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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 384

said tax, interest, charges, commission and cost of sale, and
for this purpose the bailiff is hereby clothed with all the
power that were possessed by collectors of State and county
taxes in Caroline county prior to the first day of January,
1892, under the Code of Public General Laws of the State
of Maryland and all local laws in force in said county on
said date; and the said bailiff shall collect and pay over to
the treasurer all taxes levied by the commissioners and
placed in his hands for collection on or before the first day
of July of the next succeeding year; and for the purpose of
enforcing the foregoing provisions, the said commissioners
are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to examine
the books and papers of the said bailiff, including the
receipts from said treasurer, to ascertain whether said taxes
which were placed in his hands for collection have been
collected; and the said bailiff is hereby directed to deliver
said books, papers and receipts to said commissioners, and
to assist them in every way that they may require in making
said examination; and if said commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall find that all of said taxes, save those which
are insolvent, have not been collected, they are hereby

Suit may be
entered on
bailiff's bond

directed to immediately cause suit to be entered on said
bailiff's bond for the amount remaining uncollected, after
having deducted therefrom the amount which is insolvent
and uncollectible, and such suit shall be brought for the use
of the commissioners of Greensboro; and any judgment
entered against said bailiff and his bond in said suit shall be
immediately collected by said commissioners as other judg-
ments are now collected; and the amount so collected shall
be immediately paid over to the treasurer; and neither the
said bailiff nor his bondsmen shall be permitted in such suit
to prove that any said taxes have not been collected; pro-
vided, that nothing herein contained shall be so taken or
construed as to prevent said baliff or any of the sureties on
his bond from showing that any tax for which suit is brought,
or any part of the same, is insolvent and uncollectible.

SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That all taxpayers who

Discount
allowed.

shall pay their taxes in the month of August following the
date of their levy shall be entitled to a discount of five per
cent.; all who shall pay in September following the date of
their levy shall be entitled to a discount of four per cent. ;
all who shall pay in October following the date of their