'760 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

levy shall be disbursed exclusively for county purposes, but
any person for whose use a levy is made shall be entitled to re-
ceive the sum in full, on the first day of January, after the
levy is made, under an order of the County Commissioners.
For the purpose of paying his State and county taxes, a person
having a levy, of money, in any yearly levy, may procure an
order therefor from the County Commissioners before the said
first day of January, and the treasurer and collector shall re-
ceive as cash so much of the order as may be necessary to pay
his taxes owed under such levy. If the amount levied to or
for him is less than his taxes, it shall be applied as far as it
will go to pay the same.

12lA. The treasurer and collector shall pay to the treasurer
of the Board of County School Commissioners of Dorchester
county all moneys levied for the support of the public schools
thereof at the time, and in the manner prescribed by the Public
General Laws of this State.

121B. The said treasurer and collector, between the first day
of January and the first day of October, in the year following
the making of any levy, shall take proceedings to enforce the
payment of all State and county taxes levied under any levy, so
as to close and complete the collection thereof on or before said
last named date; provided, however, that nothing herein shall
prevent his proceeding after said date. In all cases when said
official shall sell real or personal property, or both, to enforce
the payment of taxes, he shall be entitled to charge as his com-
pensation the same fees and commissions which the sheriff of
said county receive in selling real and personal property under
execution, which fees and commissions he shall charge and col-
lect as a part of the costs of the proceedings to sell said prop-
erty. The County Commissioners shall not order the payment
of any money for county purposes unless the money for the pay-
ment thereof has been previously levied.

121c. Vernon S. Bradley, who in December, in the year nine-
teen hundred and seven, under the then existing law, was ap-
pointed or chosen clerk of the County Commissioners and
County Treasurer of Dorchester county, may at any time after
this and the aforegoing sections, as sections of article ten of the
Code of Public Local Laws, go into effect, and before the first
day of July, in the year nineteen hundred and eight, take the
oath of office, prescribed by the State Constitution, and he may
execute and present for their approval to the County Commis-
sioners, the bonds prescribed in the aforegoing section one hun-
dred and seven. After he has taken said oath of office and after
the said bonds have been by him executed and presented to the