168 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 85

Town of Westernport shall elect alternately one Mayor and two
Commissioners and two Commissioners, each of whom shall hold
office for two years. And annually the said Mayor and Com-
missioners at their first meeting, which shall be on the first
Monday in April, or as soon as possible thereafter, elect one
person to serve as Bailiff of said town until the first Monday
in April in the following year and until his successor is ap-
pointed and qualified, and on the first Monday of April,, 1922,
they shall elect one person to serve as clerk of said town, who
shall serve for a term of two years and until his successor is
appointed and qualified, and thereafter biennially elect a
clerk of said town. The said Mayor and Commissioners shall
have the power to fill by appointment all vacancies occurring
from death, removal, resignation or any other cause, whether
in the office of Mayor or Commissioners, or in any other office
provided for in this Act.

9. The Mayor and Commissioners shall have during the
month of May in each year power to levy an equal tax on the
property within the limits of said town, of which they may
have a situs there by reason of the residence of the owner
therein, to such au amount each year, not exceeding the sum
of sixty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property,
as may be deemed necessary for the government of said
town, which said taxes so levied and assessed shall be col-
lected promptly by the clerk of said town and by the
clerk paid over as collected at the end of each and every
month to the treasurer of said town appointed as such
by the Mayor and Commissioners; and the said taxes shall be
a lien from the time of levy, against the property as-
sessed and enforceable and collected by the clerk in the same
manner as the collector of public county taxes can collect such
taxes. All such taxes levied as aforesaid shall be due and de-
mandable on the first day of September of the year levied and
thereafter until paid shall bear interest at six per centum per
annum, but if paid on or before June 1 a discount, of 3 per
cent, shall be allowed and if paid on or before July 1 a dis-
count of two per cent, shall be allowed and if paid on or be-
fore August 1 a discount of one per cent, shall be allowed, and
the said Mayor and Commissioners shall fix the amount of

bond, its covering and obligations to be given by the clerk his
rate of compensation and by ordinance prescribe his duties as
well as the duties of the Town Treasurer. And the said Mayor
and Commissioners at any time may appoint three persons,