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the day of receiving said taxes for collection, collections and
return of the whole amount thereof to the County Treasurer,
Comptroller and State Treasurer, as hereinbefore provided, ex-
cept such sums as the County Commissioners, upon examina-
tion of the returns of said collectors may determine to be and
to have been uncollectible, their bonds shall be liable for the
same, and the County Commissioners and the State of Mary-
land may cause suit to be brought for the county and State's
taxes, respectively, so in arrear of the bonds given, as herein-
before required.

43. The County Commissioners of said county shall make
their annual levy for State and county taxes on or before the
third Tuesday in April in each and every year, and the same
shall be due and payable on the first day of July next succeed-
ing the date of the levy thereof; from all tax bills for county
purpose which shall be paid prior to the first day of Septem-
ber, in the year of the levy thereof a discount of five per
centum shall be deducted from the amount thereof; and such
bills paid during the month of September succeeding the levy
thereof, a discount of four per centum shall be allowed; from
all paid during the month of October succeeding a discount of
three per centum shall be allowed; from all paid during the
month of November succeeding a discount of two per centum
shall be allowed; upon all bills for county taxes paid during
the month of December, irf the year of the levy thereof, the
amount thereof without discount or interest, shall be required
and paid; all taxes levied for county purposes remaining un-
paid on the thirty-first day of December, in the year of the
levy thereof, shall be in arrears, and interest shall be charged,
and collected thereon from 'the first day of January next suc-
ceeding the levy thereof; and the collectors shall make deduc-
tion and charge interest on the tax bills for county purpose
regularly in the manner aforesaid, and shall note the same
upon his books, and upon the receipts given for taxes so paid;
but the deduction allowed on county taxes by this section shall
not be made to any person or corporate institution unless the
whole amount of State and county taxes due by such persons
or corporate institutions for the current year be paid when the
same is made.

43A. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners, as
soon as the annual tax levy shall have been made, to give pub-
lic notice thereof by advertisement, inserted once a week for
three successive weeks in a newspaper in said county, and for
the collectors of their respective districts to prepare 'the bills
of each taxpayer in his collection district, and on application
he shall forward the bill by mail with a printed copy of the