FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and twenty-two, and one hundred and twenty-three of article
eight of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Cecil County,"
sub-title "County Treasurer," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

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SEC. 119. The legal and qualified voters of Cecil county
shall, at the general State election to be held in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and every two years there-
after, elect some person, a resident of said county, to be
Treasurer of Cecil county, whose duty it shall be to collect
and disburse upon the lawful orders of the County Commis-
sioners of Cecil county, all taxes levied in Cecil county; and
who shall assess all new or missed property in said county, and

County treas-
urer.

for this purpose he is clothed with all the powers possessed by
collectors of taxes under the provisions of the Code of Public
General Laws; and that until such election can be held under
the provisions of this section, John Banks, Esq., of Chesa-
peake City, in said county, be and he is hereby appointed,
authorized and empowered to act as such Treasurer, and to
exercise all the powers and perform all the duties imposed
by this section and the laws of this State, and shall hold said
office for a period of two years from the first Monday in the

Duties.

month of May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
or until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified; and
the persons elected to said office under the provisions of this
section shall hold said office for two years from the first
Monday in May succeeding their election; and the said John
Banks and his successors in said office of Treasurer of Cecil
county, shall, within five days after his or their qualification as

Tenure.

Treasurer, appoint some person, a resident of said county, to be
Assistant Treasurer, who shall be authorized to act in his place,
and for whose acts he shall be responsible, and who shall give
such bond to said Treasurer, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of his duty, as said treasurer may require, and which
said Assistant Treasurer shall receive an annual salary of
fourteen hundred dollars, to be paid by the County Commis-
sioners of Cecil county. The said Treasurer appointed by this
act, and his successors in office, shall act as Secretary to the
County Commissioners of Cecil county, and as such shall per-
form all the duties heretofore performed by the clerk to said
commissioners, or which may hereafter by law be imposed upon
clerks to County Commissioners, which last mentioned office is
hereby abolished, and shall have charge of all records, books,
&c., of the County Commissioners' office of said county; and said

Assistant
treasurer