FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

duties and regulating the fees of the treasurer and officers
employed by him, be re-enacted, so as to road as follows:

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SEC. 222. At the general election for county officers for
Anne Arundel county, to be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter,
there shall be elected by the qualified voters of eaid county, a
county treasurer, who shall hold his office for four years, from
the first Monday in May next succeeding the day of his elec-
tion, or until his successor is duly elected and qualified; he
shall be ineligible for election to said office as his own succes-
sor, and shall be subject to removal from office by the County
Commissioners of said county, for any wilful neglect of duty
or misbehavior in office, at any time, upon conviction in a

Election of
county
treasurer.

court of law; the person so elected county treasurer shall be
collector of all State taxes and all county taxes, for whatso-
ever purpose, which shall be levied or assessed during his term
of office; and it shall be his duty to receive and collect all
State and county taxes levied or assessed or put in his hands
for collection, with full power to enforce the payment of the
same by sale or otherwise, and to convey title to any real or
personal property duly sold by him for the payment of State
and county taxes, according to law, and receive all money
which shall be due and payable to said county from any source
whatever.

To be collec-
tor of taxes.

SEC. 223. The person elected county treasurer shall give
bond to the State of Maryland for the collection of State taxes
placed in his hands for collection, in double the amount of the
taxes to be collected by him, with good and sufficient sureties
to be approved by the Governor, with the condition that the
above-bonded —— shall well and faithfully execute his office,
and shall account for to the Comptroller, and pay to the
Treasurer of the State, the several sums of money which he
shall receive for the State, or be answerable for by law, at such
titne as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be void,
otherwise to be and remain in full force and effect; and he

Bond as col-
lector of
State taxes.

shall execute to the State of Maryland a separate bond, in the
penalty of forty thousand dollars, with at least three sureties,
to be approved by the County Commissioners aforesaid, with
the condition that if the above bonded ——— shall well and
faithfully execute his office of treasurer of Anne Arundel
county, and shall account for and pay to the County Commis-
sioners for said county, or to their order, the several sums

Bond as
treasurer.