298 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such bill and notice, if the same be not then paid, five per centum
of the gross amount thereof shall be added thereto as a penalty
and collected in the same manner as the bill itself; said penalty
shall be applied by the City Collector for the use of the bailiffs
in his department, and shall be in lieu of their fees, commissions
and costs, as heretofore charged; which said fees, commissions
and costs are hereby declared valid and collectible, in all cases
where the same have already accrued.

52. The Mayor shall appoint in the mode prescribed in
section 25 of this Article, and he shall hold his office as therein
provided, one Collector for Baltimore City, for the collec-
tion of all State taxes levied or to be levied for any year;
and it shall not be lawful for the municipal authorities of
said City to provide any fixed annual or other stated compen-
sation for the collection of the State taxes, or a salary of any
kind, to the said Collector for his services in collecting the
State taxes, otherwise than by a per centum on the amount of
his collections, as prescribed in this Article.

53. The Collector of State Taxes in the City of Balti-
more, before he acts as such, shall give a bond to the State of
Maryland in the penalty of seventy-five thousand dollars, to be
approved by the Governor, with the condition that if the above
bound shall well and faithfully execute his office, and shall
account to the State Comptroller for, 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 times as the
law shall direct, then such obligation to be void, otherwise to
remain in full force and virtue in law. The said Collector's
bond, when approved by the proper authorities in the City of
Baltimore, shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, and when approved by the
Governor shall be filed in the office of the State Comptroller.

54. The Collector of State Taxes in the City of Baltimore
shall make daily deposits of such sums of money as he shall re-
ceive for State taxes collected by him, less the amount of com-
mission allowed him for the collection of the same, to the credit
of the Treasurer of the State of Maryland, in some bank in said