EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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enforce payment of taxes by sale, as herein provided, of all
property upon which taxes are in arrears, as soon as he is
empowered so to do, and upon his retirement from office he
is directed and required to deliver to his successor all office
books and papers and all balances of taxes due upon the
levies for which he is charged, and also to deliver to him all
proceedings had for the enforcement of the payment of said
taxes, and the successor of a deceased or retiring treasurer is
empowered and required to collect and enforce the payment
of said taxes, as herein provided; and in all cases where a
treasurer has taken steps for the enforcement of the payment
of said taxes, and shall retire or die before the collection of
said taxes, or before said proceedings are completed, his
successor is empowered and required to continue and com-

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plete said proceedings for the enforcement of the payment of
said taxes, and to collect the same, and is hereby clothed with
all the power and authority in law had by the retiring
treasurer during his term of office for that purpose.

262 K. The County Commissioners of Harford county shall

Clothed with
certain
powers

annually levy such sums of money as they shall deem
sufficient to pay the expenses which may be incurred during
the succeeding year by the attendance of jurors, State's
witnesses, crier and bailiffs of the Circuit Court, together
with any expenses of said court which they may be required
to pay, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to pay said
expenses to the individual entitled to receive the same when-
ever the amount so payable shall be duly certified to him by
said court, and upon his failure to pay any such sum when
so certified to the person entitled to receive the same the said
treasurer shall forfeit and pay to every such person for every
such failure the sum of one dollar, to be recovered as other
small sums are recovered, before a justice of the peace, together
with the costs of suit; the said court shall not issue to the indi-
vidual entitled to receive any of the expense aforesaid, except
witnesses, any evidence that such sums are due, but the same
shall be certified directly to said treasurer, and the said
treasurer, before paying the same, shall deduct from the
respective amounts due as aforesaid any sum or sums of
money due and owing by the said individual to the said
county for taxes or otherwise, but said treasurer shall pay
no court expenses save the per diem of jurors, State witnesses,
crier and bailiffs, unless the bills for the same shall have

Levy to be
made.