LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

neglect of duty, or misbehavior or malfeasance in office ; and
in case of a vacancy in said office, by reason of, a removal from
office as herein provided, or by reason of death, resignation, re-
moval from the county, or in any other manner, the Governor
of the State shall be and he is hereby authorized and empowered
to fill such vacancy by the appointment of some person having
the necessary qualification, who shall hold eaid office for the
remainder of the said term. The person so elected county
treasurer shall be collector of all State and county taxes for
said county, for whatsoever purpose, which shall be levied or
assessed during his term of office, in the same manner and to
the same extent and with the same powers heretofore exercised
by the collector of State and county taxes for said county,
under the laws of the State of Maryland ; and it shall be his
duty to receive and collect all State and county taxes, levied or
assessed or placed in his hands for collection, with full power
and authority to enforce the payment of the same by distraint,
sale or otherwise, and also to receive all money which shall be
due and payable to said county from any source whatsoever ;
and the said county treasurer is hereby authorized and em-
powered to convey to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, the
title to any real or personal property sold by him for the pay-
ment of State and county taxes ; and for his compensation the
County Commissioners of said county shall allow to said county
treasurer in their levy for each and every year a sum equal to
one per centum of the levy for State taxes, and a sum equal
to three-fourths of one per centum for all moneys collected by
him of the levy for county taxes fur such year.

451 B. The person elected county treasurer, as provided in

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the preceding section, before he proceeds to act as collector of
county taxes in each year, shall give bond to the State of Mary-
land in the penalty of one hundred thousand dollars, with good
and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the County Commis-
sioners of said county, with the condition that if the above
bound shall well and faithfully execute his office and
shall account for and pay to said County Commissioners, or
their order, the several sums of money which he shall receive
for said county or be answerable for by law, at such time as
the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be void, other-
wise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law ; and the
said county treasurer, before he proceeds to act as collector of
State taxes for said county in each year, shall give a separate
bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty double the amount
of the tax to be collected by him with good and sufficient sure-

Bond to be
given.