HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 93

117. The Tax Collectors for each of the said Collection
Districts shall have been bona fide residents of the several
Election Districts for which they shall have been appointed
for at least five years before their appointment, and shall be
at least twenty-five years of age, and shall not be related di-
rectly or collaterally within the third degree (nor married
to any one so related) to any member of the Board of
County Commissioners, making such appointment, and
the said Collector 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 performance 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 Sections 51 and 52 of Article 81 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of the State of Maryland, with personal or corporate
surety or sureties as to his bond for County Taxes to be ap-
proved by the County Commissioners, except that the penalty in
the said bond of said Collector for the collection of 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 Dis-
trict, shall be in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars; and
the said County Commissioners at their April Session in the
year 1939, and in each year thereafter shall, before the said
Collectors enter upon the performance of their duties fix the
salary or compensation of each of the 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 Collector for
collecting the State and County Taxes so placed in their
hands for collection from year to year; and the salary or com-
pensation shall be upon a commission basis to be determined
by the County Commissioners but said commissions shall not
exceed three per centum for the Second and Third Districts,
respectively, and in the First Tax Collection District the Tax
Collector may be paid and allowed during the fiscal years of
1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942 for collecting all taxes of said
District a sum equal to but not exceeding ninety per-centum
of the amount paid or allowed by the County Commissioners
of Allegany County to said Tax Collector for the collection
of taxes in said First Tax Collection District for the
fiscal year of 1931, provided that the compensation for said
Collectors in said Second and Third Collection Districts shall