666 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 226

Resistance to Collectors.

87. If any person shall resist, strike or menace with vio-
lence any collector in the discharge of his duties, or shall
resist, attack or menace with violence any person present,
and bidding or proposing to bid at any tax sale of property
by a collector as aforesaid, the said Collector may summon
for his defense the posse comitatus, and each person so sum-
moned shall be allowed fifty cents per day, to be levied on
the county or city as other charges; and if any person sum-
moned shall refuse to serve, he shall be liable to a fine of five
dollars, to be recovered before a justice of the peace, one-half
to the use of the party prosecuting and the other half to the
county or city.

88. If any collector shall have good reason to believe that
he will be resisted by violence in the discharge of his duty in
making a sale, he may, prior to the clay of sale, summon the
posse comitatus for his protection and the protection of peace-
able persons attending such sale and the said posse comitatus
when so summoned and attending shall be paid as hereinbefore
directed, and shall be liable to be proceeded against as herein-
after provided for failure or refusing to attend.

89. If any person shall strike or assault a collector in the
discharge of his duty, or shall strike or assault any person
serving as one of the posse comitatus, or shall strike or assault
any person to deter or prevent his bidding at a collector's sale,
or for having bid at such sale, he shall, on indictment and con-
viction thereof, be subject to a fine of riot less than one hundred
nor more than five hundred dollars, and to imprisonment for
not less than two nor more than twelve months.

SPECIAL TAXES.
Franchise Tax on Deposits of Savings Banks.

90. Every savings bank, institution or corporation, organ-
ized for receiving deposits of money and paying interest there-
on, other than banks having a capital stock, shall pay, annu-
ally, a franchise tax, to the amount of one-fourth of one per
centum on the total amount of deposits held by such savings
bank, institution or corporation; and it shall be the duty of
the president, treasurer or other proper officer of every such
savings bank, institution or corporation, on or before the fif-
teenth day of March, in each year, to report, under oath, to the