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City which pays to the State the bonus or school tax, as provided
by law, to be designated by the said Treasurer, and shall send
to the Treasurer a statement of the amount so deposited within
the first ten days of each month, with a certificate of the bank
that the same is so deposited; and on failure to make such daily
deposits and to send such certificate, he shall, on proof thereof
to the satisfaction of the Governor, be liable to removal from
office by the Governor, and the State Comptroller shall imme-
diately enter suit upon his bond.

55. The Treasurer of the State may make weekly examina-
tion of the books of the Collector of State Taxes in Baltimore
City, whose books shall always be open to such inspection.,

56. If there be no Collector of State Taxes qualified and
compensated in conformity with the provisions of this Article
in said City by the fifteenth day of October in any year, the
Governor shall appoint from any part of the State a Collector
for the said City, who shall give bond, with sureties to be ap-
proved by the Governor, and be in all respects on a footing
with other State Collectors' bonds as provided in the Public
General Laws, Article 81, title "Revenue and Taxes," and the
said Collector shall have all the power of other Collectors.

57. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall levy
upon the assessable property in the City of Baltimore such com-
mission as will in its judgment insure a speedy collection of said
State taxes, not exceeding two per centum on the amount to be
placed in the hands of said Collector of State Taxes for Balti-
more City; said commission to be levied for the use of said
Collector, and to be collected as other charges are collected.

58. The City Collector shall be the Collector of State
Taxes, and perform the duties as herein provided, unless other-
wise provided by ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.

59. The Collector of Water Rents and Licenses shall be
the head of the sixth sub-department of Finance, and shall
be appointed by the Mayor in the mode prescribed in sec-