ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 287.

AN ACT to require the collectors of state and
county taxes in Howard county, to report
under oath, on the first Tuesday in January
and July of each year, and to pay over to the
county commissioners of said county the
amount of county taxes collected by them,
and at the same time to render to said county
commissioners an alphabetical list of the
names of all persons who may have paid the
same and the amounts paid by each re-
spectively.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the several collectors

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of state and county taxes in Howard county
shall hereafter, on the first Tuesday of January
and July in each year, account for under oath,
and pay over to the county commissioners of
said county the entire amount of county taxes
then collected by them, and at the same time
render to said county commissioners an alpha-
betical list of all persons who may have paid
the same, and the amounts paid by each re-
spectively, until the whole amount of county
taxes placed in their hands for collection are
duly collected and paid.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in case any

Tax collectors
to make ret'rn
twice a year.

collector shall fail to account and pay over to
said county commissioners the county taxes
collected by him, as required by the preceding
section, he may be removed by said county
commissioners, and they may appoint some
other person to complete his collections, who
shall give bond as now required by law on the
appointment of collectors of state and county
taxes in said county.

May remove-
and appoint.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Effective.