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said certificates of indebtedness as and when the same shall
become due and payable.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved March 25, 1927.

CHAPTER 140.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 37
of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Wicomico County, " sub-title "Delmar, " as said section
was amended by Chapter 192 of the Acts of 1900.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 37 of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico County", sub-title "Del-
mar", as said Section was amended by Chapter 192 of the Acts
of 1900, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

37. The Commissioners may levy on or before the second
Monday of October annually on the assessable property of the
town a sum sufficient for all general purposes, such taxes
not to exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars'
worth of property. Such taxes, when levied, shall be a
preferred lien upon the property assessed, and shall be due and
demandable on the first day of January, in each year, after be-
ing levied for the collection of taxes so levied; the Commis-
sioners shall appoint a collector, who may be the bailiff of said
town, at the time the annual levy is made. The Collector,
within ten days after his appointment shall give bond to the
State of Maryland in double the amount of taxes to be collected,
and conditioned for the faithful performance of the trusts re-
posed in him as collector, with sureties to be approved by the
Commissioners, and on failure to give bond within the time
specified, the Commissioners shall appoint 'another person as col-
lector. Should the collector fail to collect and turn over the
taxes so levied and placed in his hands for collection on or be-
fore the first day of July after the levy of such taxes, the Com-
missioners may order suit upon such collector's bond, within
thirty days after any taxes are due and demandable, the col-
lector shall give written or printed notice to such delinquent,
or his, her or their agent, and if no agent, or absent by notice
in writing, as provided, put upon the property of said delin-
quent, and that his, her or their taxes are due and in arrears,
and unless paid within two months after the service of such