ELIHU E JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

time demand of any treasurer such other or
further bond, with such other or further
security as in their judgment the interest of
the state may require.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the county

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commissioners shall provide and furnish the
treasurer an office in the court-house building,
or in some other building as near to the same
as possible, in the town of Oakland, which office
shall be plainly designated by external sign as
the office of the county treasurer ; and it shall
be the duty of the treasurer to keep his said
office open from nine o'clock in the forenoon
until three o'clock in the afternoon, and to
attend therein for the transaction of business
in person, or by deputy, on every day in the
week except Sunday and legal holidays, and
except when he is absent from the town of
Oakland for the purpose of collecting taxes, as
hereinafter provided for. It shall be his duty
to attend in person, or by deputy, in each elec-
tion district of said county, two days between
the first day of July and the first day of Bep-
tember in each year to collect and receive taxes;
and he shall'give at least ten days' notice of the
time and place of such visits to the respective
districts.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the county
commissioners of said county shall make their
annual levy for state and county taxes on or

Furnish an
oftlce.

before the third Tuesday in April in each
and every year, and the same shall be due
and payable on the first day of August
next succeeding the date of the levy thereof ;
from all tax bills for county purposes which
shall be paid prior to the first day of Bep-
tember in the year of the levy thereof, a dis-
count of five per centum shall be deducted
from the amount thereof; from all such bills
paid during the month of Beptember succeeding
the levy thereof, a discount of four per centum
shall be allowed, and all taxes levied for county
purposes remaining unpaid on the thirty-first
day of December in the year of the levy thereof
shall be in arrear, and interest shall be charged
and collected thereon from the date when the
same shall have been due and payable, to wit. on

Annual levy.