750 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

cessor shall be elected and qualify. And if a vacancy
at any time occur in said from death, resignation, re-
moval from the county, removal from office, or from any other
causes, the County Commissioners, as speedily as practicable,
shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired portion of the pending
official term, and the person appointed to fill the vacancy, shall
hold office until his successor is appointed and has qualified.
For his services as clerk, treasurer and collector, the said
official shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per
year, payable in equal monthly instalments, the said sum shall
be his sole and only compensation, except the fees hereinafter
allowed him in cases where real or personal property is sold
to enforce the payment of taxes, and for assessing new prop-
erty. The County Commissioners may remove said official for
negligence of duty, misconduct in office, or removal from the
county.

107. Before lie enters upon the discharge of the duties of his
office, the clerk, treasurer and collector of State and county
taxes, shall, as such, take and subscribe before the clerk of the
Circuit Court of said county, or one of his deputies, the oath
prescribed in section six of article one of the Constitution of
Maryland, and first, before he enters upon the discharge of the
duties of his office, he shall, as "The Treasurer and Collector of
State and County taxes in Dorchester County," file in the office
of the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county a bond to the
State of Maryland, in reference to the collection of State taxes
and other moneys of the State, in a penalty to be fixed by the
County Commissioners, who shall estimate the yearly average
amount of State taxes, likely to be levied and placed in his
hands for collection, during his official term, and the amount of
the penalty shall be double the amount of said estimate or
thereabouts. The said bond shall be executed by said official
himself and by one or more securities, or by a guaranty or
bonding company, incorporated under the laws of the State of
Maryland, as a surety. The conditions of such bond shall be
as follows: "That if the above bounden shall well and
faithfully execute his office of clerk to the County Commission-
ers and his office of treasurer and collector of State taxes in
Dorchester county, and if he shall well and faithfully account
for, to the Comptroller of said State, and pay to the Treasurer
of the same, all sums of money which he shall receive for said
State, or for which he shall be answerable by law, at such
times as the law directs, then this obligation to be .void, but
otherwise to remain in full force, effect and virtue .in law."
And second, before he enters upon the discharge of the duties
of, his office, he shall also file in the office of the clerk of the