SOMERSET COUNTY. 1087

of same or a copy thereof is hereby made evidence in any court
of this State. The collector shall give bond to the State of
Maryland in an amount at least equal to the amount of the
taxes levied, with a fidelity or surety company qualified to act
as surety or guaranty under the laws of the State of Maryland
as surety, conditioned that he will well and faithfully perform
the duties of collector of taxes in all things according to law
and the ordinance of the city, and that he will well and truly
collect the taxes levied for the use of said City of Crisfield and
account for and pay over all moneys that may come into his
hands as collected in the manner and as required by law and
said ordinance. Said bond shall be paid for by the Mayor
and Council. The clerk and treasurer, if not also collector,
shall give bond in such penalty as the Mayor and Council may
prescribe, and if the same person shall be appointed as clerk,
treasurer and collector, then the said offices shall all be com-
bined and named in said bond and included in its penalty, as
above provided. The said bond or bonds shall be approved by
the Council and spread upon its minutes, and then delivered,
with the approval indorsed thereon, to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Somerset County for record, a certified copy of the
same from the record to be evidence in any court of this State.
If appointee shall fail or neglect to give satisfactory bond with-
in fifteen days, unless the time be extended by the Council, from
the date his appointment is confirmed, the Mayor shall ap-
point some other person to said office, to be confirmed as
aforesaid by the Council and to give bond as aforesaid, and said
bond to be approved and recorded as aforesaid. In case of
vacancy for any cause in said office, or any of them, the Mayor
shall appoint some person to fill the unexpired term, the new
appointee to be confirmed and to take the oath as if originally
appointed. The clerk may take the probate to any account
against said city and administer oaths in any proceedings
where an oath is necessary had before the Council or Mayor,
but shall receive no fee therefor.

75. The said clerk shall attend all meetings of Council. He
shall keep an accurate account of the proceedings of the Coun-
cil, record promptly all ordinances in the ordinance book, all
proceedings in relation to the opening, closing, widening, grad-
ing or paving of any street or alley, or any part thereof, includ-
ing reports of commissioners on same, in a suitable book, and
index the same. He shall keep the assessment books of said
city, with names of owners of property arranged alphabetically,
and the property so described as to identify same, stating the
value of each piece thereof. He shall keep a full and fair ac-
count of all money received by him, and of all money paid out,
showing from whom or what source it was received and for