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38. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 352.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 180 of
Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Frederick County," sub-title "Frederick," relating to the
Office of City Register, as the same was amended by Chapter
1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1898,
and by Chapters 295 and 335 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1904.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 180 of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Fred-
erick," relating to the Office of City Register, as the same was
amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1898, and by Chapters 295 and 335 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1904, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

180. No person shall be City Register of said City unless he
be at the time of his election a citizen of the United States,
above the age of twenty-five years, a freeholder in the City
within the taxable limits thereof, actually residing therein, and
having resided therein for three years next preceding his elec-
tion. The annual salary of the person elected City Register
shall be Twelve Hundred Dollars, which sum shall be his total
compensation. He shall also be Collector of Taxes for said City,
and whenever said City Register and Tax Collector shall find it
necessary to proceed by way of distress or execution to collect
any tax levied by The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, which
it is hereby authorized by law to lay, he shall as far as practi-
cable proceed in the same manner as is now provided by the
laws of the State of Maryland for the collection of State and
County taxes. At the beginning of his term of office, and an-
nually thereafter, he shall give bond to the State of Maryland
for the use of The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, in a pen-
alty of Fifty Thousand Dollars, with good and sufficient surety
or sureties to be approved by the Board of Aldermen, which said
bond shall be recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit