ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 653

to be levied for the current year; and, such collectors shall
receive such compensation as is now or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by law, provided no such collector shall receive any
separate compensation from the State for collecting State taxes.
In and for Baltimore City the collector shall be appointed in
the mode prescribed by the Act of 1898, Chapter 123, Sections
25 and 42. Every collector before he acts as such shall take
the oath prescribed by Section 60 of Article I of the Consti-
tution.

51. As to county taxes every collector before he acts as
such shall give bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty
as may be prescribed by the County Commissioners, but in no
case less than the penalty fixed by existing local laws, with good
and sufficient sureties to be approved by the County Commis-
sioners; and the collector of city taxes in the City of Baltimore
before he acts as such shall give bond in such penalty as may
be prescribed by the ordinances of the Mayor and City Council
to be approved by the Mayor and President of the City Coun-
cil. The condition of such bonds shall be that if the above
bound * * * shall well and faithfully execute his office and
shall account for and pay to the County Commissioners, or
to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, if in said city,
or their order, the several sums of money which he shall
receive for the county or city, as the case may be, or be answer-
able for by law, at such times as the law shall direct, then the
said obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full
force and virtue in law.

52. Every such collector in the counties shall also give a
separate bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty as
may be prescribed by the Comptroller of the Treasury with
the approval of the Governor, with good and sufficient sureties,
to be approved by the Governor, with the condition that if
the above bound * * * shall well and faithfully execute
his office and shall account for to the Comptroller and pay
to the Treasurer of the State the several sums of money
which he shall receive for the State, or be answerable for by
law, at such times as the law shall direct, then the said obli-
gation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
The city collector in the City of Baltimore before ho acts
as collector of State taxes in said city shall give a bond with
good and sufficient sureties to the State of Maryland in a
penalty of seventy-five thousand dollars, to be approved by