796 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the said salary shall be his sole compensation, except he shall
be allowed five per centum on such mortgage taxes, as he col-
lects and pays to the County Commissioners or their order.

109. The County Commissioners of said county shall have
power and authority to make levies of taxes for State and
county purposes, including public schools, and it shall be their
duty to make such a levy, in each and every year on or before
the first day of July, and they shall have power and authority
and it shall be their duty on or before the first Tuesday of
May in each year, beginning with the year nineteen hundred
and ten, to appoint a suitable person in each and every elec-
tion district of said county as collector of State and county
taxes for such election district, and such collector shall have
power and authority and it shall be his duty to collect the
State and county taxes that may be levied in his election dis-
trict in the year of his appointment, and he shall hold office for
the period of two years from the date whereon he was ap-
pointed collector. Provided, that he shall not enforce the pay-
ment of taxes by seizure or sale until said taxes shall have be-
come due and in arrear and until he has given the notice and
taken the proceedings in such case made and provided by law.
And the County Commissioners shall have authority to ap-
point as collector of State and county taxes in any election
district a person who resides in a different election district.

110. Every collector of State and county taxes who is ap-
pointed as provided in the previous section before he acts as
such shall give a bond to the State of Maryland, conditioned
for the faithful discharge of the duties of his said office, ac-
cording to law, in a penalty fixed by the County Commission-
ers of at least double the amount of the taxes to be collected by
him. The said bond shall be executed by the collector and
one surety or more than one, or by a guaranty or bonding com-
pany incorporated under the laws of this State as surety, and
the said bond and the surety or sureties thereon shall be ap-
proved by the County Commissioners, and such approval shall
be endorsed on the bond by the commissioners or by a majority
of them. As soon as the bond has been executed and approved
it shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for said county, to be therein recorded, and a copy of the same,
duly certified by the clerk, shall be received in evidence by all
the Courts of law and equity of this State. If any collector
shall fail to give bond as herein required within one month
after his appointment, the County Commissioners shall imme-
diately make a new appointment in his place; and shall con-
tinue to make such appointment until a collector shall give
bond as directed. Each collector's bond shall contain the fol-