860 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 393

($6, 000. 00) Dollars and said bond shall be liable for the
faithful performance of the duties of said office and
for faithfully accounting and paying over to the Mayor
and Councilmen of Frostberg all taxes, water rent and
other assessments that have been received by the said Tax
Collector except such taxes, water rents and assessments
as the Mayor and Councilmen may allow as insolvencies,
the claims for insolvencies to be submitted by the said Tax
Collector to the said Mayor and Councilmen during the
term of his office. He shall, on the tenth day of January,
in the year for which he was elected, take proceedings to
collect by law all taxes remaining unpaid, and he shall col-
lect by law all water rents that have been due for fifteen
days and all assessments within six months after they are
due. Thirty days after the expiration of each quar-
ter he shall notify the water superintendent of all
water rents for the preceding quarter remaining unpaid,
and it shall be the duty of the water superintendent to turn
over the same, and he shall not again turn on the water
for the property or properties in default until the water
rent due, together with a fee of one dollar, is paid to said
collector, which said fee shall be paid by said collector to
the town treasurer. The said collector shall be allowed
three per cent. (3%) for all money collected, but the Mayor
and Councilmen of Frostburg are authorized to retain from
the money due the said Tax Collector for his services such
an amount or percentage of the fees due to said Tax Collec-
tor as they may determine by ordinance and apply the
same to the payment of such taxes, water rents or other
assessments which they have not allowed as insolvent and
which therefore should have been collected by said Collector.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and hav-
ing been passed by yea and nay vote supported by three-
fifths of all the members of the two Houses elected to the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved May 17, 1935.

CHAPTER 393.

AN ACT to grant additional powers to the municipalities
described in Chapter 30 of the Acts of the Extraordinary
Session of 1933, to enable such municipalities to meet the