12 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 8

tution, and further proceedings had in accordance with said
Article Fourteen.

Approved March 1st, 1922.

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to repeal Section 42A of the Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Allegany County, " sub-title ''County Treas-
urer and Taxes, " as enacted by Chapter 456 of the"Acts of
Assembly of 1912, and to re-enact said certificate with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, that certificate 42A of the Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Allegany County, " sub-title ''County Treasurer and
Taxes, " as enacted by Chapter 456 of the Acts of Assembly,
1912, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

SEC. 42A. The tax collector for each of said tax collection
districts shall have been bona-fide residents of the several col-
lection districts, for which they shall be appointed for at least
five years before their appointment and shall be at least twenty-
five years of age, and shall not be related directly or collater-
ally within the third degree (nor married to any one so re-
lated) to any member of the Board of County Commissioners,
making such appointment; and the said collectors shall not be
eligible for re-election for the term next ensuing; and each of
said collectors before entering upon the discharge of his duties
shall give bond conditioned for the faithful performance of his
duties in the collection of State and County taxes in the pen-
alty and with the conditions as now provided for tax collectors'
bonds by Section 32 of Article 81 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of the State of Maryland, with personal or corpo-
rate surety or sureties to be approved by the County Commis-
sioners, except that the penalty in the said bond of said col-
lector for the collection of the county taxes for the First Tax
Collection District shall be in the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars; the penalty in the bond of said collector for the col-
lection of county taxes for the Second Tax Collection District

shall be in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and the
penalty in the bond of said collector for the collection of county
taxes for the Third Tax Collection District shall be in the sum