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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

their hands for collection, and on the first Tuesday in each and
every month thereafter, and oftener if required by the County
Commissioners, the county taxes collected by them for said
county until the collections are completed, and on failure to
make such monthly or other payments, each delinquent collec-
tor may be removed from office by the County Commisioners
and another appointed in his stead by said Commissioners ; and
at the end of the time allowed for collection as aforesaid by
said collectors they and each of them shall make to the
County Commissioners a full and complete return under oath
of the State and county taxes collected by them, of the whole
amount of taxes placed in their hands for collection for the
State and county since their appointment, and also an alpha-
betical list of all delinquent taxpayers in their respective tax
collection districts and the sum due by each of them, which
list the County Commissioner are authorized to have printed
in at least one newspaper published in said county; and on
failure to pay over to the County Treasurer and to the Treas-
urer of the State all taxes collected by them, and to complete
within twelve months from the day of receiving said taxes for
collection the collections and return of the whole amount
thereof to the County Treasurer, Comptroller and State Treas-
urer, as hereinbefore provided, except such sums as the County
Commissioners upon examination of the returns of said collec-
tors may determine to be and to have been incollectible, their
bond shall be liable for the same, and the County Commis-
sioners and the State of Maryland may cause suit to be brought
for the county and State taxes respectively so in arrear on the
bonds given, as hereinbefore required, and the County Com-
missioners shall require each of said collectors to make a state-
ment under oath to them on the first day of June next
succeeding the levy of said taxes, of the amount of such taxes
collected by them from each person, with the name of said
person.

Authority
given
county com
missioners
in case of
death, etc.

42 C. In case of the death, removal, failure or refusal to give
the required bond, disqualification or failure to act, from any
cause, of any tax collector elected under this Act, then in such
"case it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of Alle-
gany county to appoint a tax collector having the qualifications
aforesaid, for the term or unexpired terra for such collectorships
so made vacant, as aforesaid, who shall give bond as aforesaid,
and whose duties and obligations shall be the. same as though
he had been elected and qualified under this Act ; and it is
further provided that all the provisions of Article 81 of the