130 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 73

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with Amendments, Section 159,
of Article, 22, of The Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Washington County, " sub-title, "Hagers-
town, ", as the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter
2, of The Acts of Assembly, 1918.

( Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to repeal Section 42-A of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title, "Allegany County, " sub-title, "County
Treasurer and Taxes, " as enacted by Chapter 358 of the
Acts of 1914 and re-enacting same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 42-A of the Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title, "Allegany County, " sub-title, "County Treasurer and
Taxes, " as enacted by Chapter 358 of the Acts of 1914, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows:

SEC. 42-A. The Tax. Collector for each of said tax
collection districts shall have been bona-fide residents of the
several collection 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 collaterally within the third degree (nor married to anyone
so related) to any member of the Board of County Commis-
sioners, 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
ties shall give bond conditioned for the faithful performance
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 General
Laws of the State of Maryland, with personal or corporate surety
or sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners, except
that the penalty in the said bond of said collector for the col-
lection 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 collection of
county taxes for the Second Tax Collection District shall be in
the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and the pen-
alty in the bond of said collector for the collection of county