LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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same is hereby re enacted with amendments, to read as fol-
lows, and to come in after section 10 of chapter 183 of the
Acts of 1890.
11. That at the general election of delegates every two years,
counting from the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, there
shall be elected a County Treasurer for Calvert county by the

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legally qualified voters of eaid county, who shall hold his office
for two years and until his successor is elected and qualified as
hereinafter provided ; and be subject at all times to removal
by the Governor for wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in
office, upon conviction in a court of law ; and he shall not be
eligible to re-election until after the interval of one full term ;
and the said treasurer shall in all respects be clothed with the
powers given by chapter 183 of the Acts of 1890.

County treas-
urer to be
elected.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That section 2 of chap-
ter 183 of the Acts of 1890 be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, to read as follows :
SEC. 3. That the person so appointed, as provided in section
one of chapter 183 of the Acts of 1890, or who shall be here-
after elected, as hereinbefore provided, before he enters upon
the duties of his said office, shall take an oath before the clerk

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of the Circuit Court for Calvert County in form similar to
that now taken by the treasurer of Calvert county ; he shall
execute to the State of Maryland such bond as is now or may
hereafter be required by law as the collector of State taxes,
which bond shall be approved and filed in like manner as other
bonds of collectors of State taxes ; and he shall execute to the
State of Maryland a separate bond in the penal sum of twenty-
five thousand dollars, to be approved by the County Commis-
sioners of Calvert county, with the condition that if the above
bounden treasurer shall well and faithfully execute his office of
treasurer of Calvert county, and shall account for and pay to
the County Commissioners aforesaid, or to their order, or as
the law may direct, the several sums which he shall receive
for said county, or be answerable for by law at such time and
in such manner as the law shall direct, then the obligation to
be void, otherwise to be and and remain in full force and virtue
in law ; and said bond, when approved, shall be recorded in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Calvert County
at the expense of the treasurer. In case of the default of the
person so appointed or elected, to qualify and execute the bonds
required within thirty days after the receipt of commission, or
in the event of his removal from office, his death or resigna-
tion during his term of office, the Governor shall at once

Oath to be
taken and
bond given.