ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 655
55. If any collector shall fail to give bond as herein required
within twenty days after his selection, the County Commis-
sioners or Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case-
may be, shall immediately appoint another in his place and
shall continue after twenty days to make such appointment un-
til a collector shall give bond as directed.
56. The clerks of the County Commissioners and the regis-
ter of the City of Baltimore shall annually, on or before the-
first day of January, inform the Governor whether there is
in their several counties and the said city, a collector or col-
lectors of the State taxes, duly selected and qualified in con-
formity with the provisions of this article.
57. If there be no collector of State taxes selected and quali-
fied in conformity with the foregoing provisions, in any of the
counties or in said city, by the fifteenth day of January in any
year, the Governor shall appoint from any part of the State a
collector or collectors for said county or the said city, who
shall give bond with good and sufficient sureties to be approved
by the Governor, which shall be in all respects on a footing
with other state collectors' bonds as provided in this article,,
and the" said collector shall have all the powers of other col-
lectors.
58. If any collector, appointed under the preceding sec-
tion, shall fail to give bond within thirty days, the Governor,
shall appoint another in his place, and so on after every inter?
val of thirty clays, until a collector shall qualify.
59. Every collector receiving the tax rolls provided for in
Section 46 of this Article, as well as certifications of assess-
ments from the State Tax Commission, shall proceed to collect
the taxes due thereon and payable to him with any penalty or
interest imposed by law, and shall pay the county and city
taxes collected to the County Commissioners, or the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be, or their order,
not later than the tenth day of each month, which payments
shall include all taxes collected during the month next preced-
ing; and all monies levied for educational purposes by the
County Commissioners of the several counties shall be levied
separately and distinctly from the other items of taxation and
a list thereof furnished to the School Commissioners of said
counties; and the collector shall make return of all said taxes
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