FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

authorized to act in his place, for whose acts he shall be
responsible, and to whom he may pay such compensation as he
may deem proper, to be deducted from his salary; and said

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treasurer shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred
dollars, and the further sum of twenty-five cents for each
person's property assessed by him, and five cents for each dog
or bitch returned to the County Commissioners, and by them
ordered to be entered on the assessment books of the county,
but dogs in the incorporated towns which impose a tax thereon
shall not be assessed by the County Commissioners; said
treasurer shall, before entering upon the duties of his office,

Salary.

execute to the State of Maryland two bonds with sureties, to
be approved by the County Commissioners, one for fifteen
thousand dollars, conditional for the faithful collection and
payment to the State Treasurer of all State taxes levied and
placed in his hands for collection, and the faithful performance
of all other duties devolving on him, and another bond for
twenty five thousand dollars, conditional for the proper collec-
tion and disbursement of all taxes levied and placed in his
hands for Kent county, and the faithful performance of all
other duties devolving on him, said bonds to be filed and
recorded in the office, of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
said county.

SEC. 223. It shall be the duty of the treasurer each year as

Bonds.

soon as the annual levy is made to give public notice thereof
by advertisement, inserted in two newspapers printed and
published in said county, and the taxes so levied shall be due
and payable on the first day of September of the year in
which they are so levied. It shall be the duty of the said

Notice of
levy.

treasurer in the month of September in each year, to sit for
two days at the principal town in each election district of said
county, and in the months of October and November, one
day in each of said town in each election district as aforesaid,
for the purpose of receiving taxes; due notice of each of said
sittings shall be given by advertisement as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and he shall report to the County Commissioners at
their first regular meeting in each month, the amount of taxes,
State and county, separately collected by him up to the date

To receive
taxes.

of such report and the amounts of disbursements made, and
the balance in hand, and he shall deposit at least once a week
in one or more of the banks in Chestertown, all taxes
received or collected by him up to the date of such deposit ;
the portion due to the State to his credit as collector of State
taxes, and the portion due the county to his credit as treasurer

Deposits in
bank.