302 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 95

Chapter 144 of the Acts of 1933, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read
as follows:

Section 117. The Tax Collectors for each of said Tax
Collection Districts shall have been bona fide residents of
the several collection districts for which they shall have
been appointed for at least five years before their appoint-
ment, 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 Commissioners, making such ap-
pointment; 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 or her
duties shall give bond conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of his or her duties in the collection of State and
County taxes in the penalty, 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 collec-
tion 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 Fifty Thousand Dollars, and the penalty
in the bond of said Collector for the collection of County
taxes for the Third Tax Collection District, shall be in the
sum of fifty thousand dollars; and said County Commis-
sioners, at their April Session in the year 1927 and in
each year thereafter shall, before said Collectors enter
upon the performance of their duties, fix the salary or
compensation of each of said tax collectors for the ensuing
year, to be paid by the Commissioners, and not retained
out of the collections by the Collector, which amount so
fixed by said Commissioners, shall be in full of all com-
pensation, of every kind to be paid the said Collectors for
collecting the State and County taxes, so placed in their
hands for collection from year to year, and Section 31,
of Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws so far
as the same relates to Allegany County is hereby repealed,
except as hereinbefore provided; and the salary or com-
pensation shall be upon a commission basis to be deter-
mined by the County Commissioners but said commission