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ington County,'' sub-title, '' Collectors of Taxes,'' to follow Sec-
tion 78-A of said Article, and to be known as Section 78-B
thereof and to read as follows:

SEC. 78-B. On the Tuesday after the first Monday in No-
vember, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, and on the
same day every second year thereafter, there shall be elected
by the qualified voters of Washington County, a Tax Collector,
who shall hold office for two years from the first day of April
next ensuing his election, but shall be ineligible thereto for two
years thereafter, and be subject to removal therefrom for in-
competency, willful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office on
conviction in a court of law. No one shall be elected Tax Col-
lector, who shall not be above twenty-one years of age and five
years a resident of Washington County, Maryland, and in case
of a vacancy in the office of Tax Collector in consequence of
death, resignation, removal, disqualification or failure to prop-
erly qualify, the Governor shall fill said vacancy as soon there-
after as practicable; the said Tax Collector shall perform and
fulfill all the duties and functions and be subject to all the obli-
gations, requirements and limitations that are now, or may
hereafter be defined, imposed, or required by any general law
or statute of the State of Maryland, or any local law or statute
for Washington County upon a collector for Washington
County for the collection of all State taxes, appointed by the
County Commissioners of Washington County under and in
accordance with the provisions of Section Thirty-three of Ar-
ticle Eighty-one of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Revenue and Taxes," sub-title "Collectors and Col-
lections," all of which said laws, general and local, together
with any future amendments thereto, being hereby made ap-
plicable to the Tax Collector to be elected as in this Section
provided; the compensation for said Tax Collector, elected as
herein provided, to be the same as is now or may hereafter be
provided by law for such collector appointed in conformity with
said Section 33 of said Article 81, provided that said compen-
sation shall not be less than that now paid to such collector.
Until the election of a Tax Collector under the provisions of
this Section the provisions of said Section 33 of said Article 81
of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland shall be and
remain in full force and effect, the incumbent collector at the
time of an election of a Tax Collector under the provisions of
this Section to hold office until the commencement of the term
of office of the Tax Collector elected under the provisions of this
Section. Nothing herein contained shall be taken to relieve any