1422 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 809

ing from the year 1942, there shall be elected a county treas-
urer for St. Mary's County by the qualified voters of said
county, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his
successor is elected and qualified, to be subject to removal for
wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office upon conviction
in a court of law; he shall not be eligible to re-election until
after an interval of one full term and until he shall have fully
settled up all business connected with his former term; and
the persons elected to said office under the provisions of this
section shall hold the same for four years from the first day of
April succeeding their election; and the said treasurer may
appoint some person, a resident of said county, to be assistant
treasurer, who shall be authorized to act in his place, and for
whose act he shall be responsible, and he shall give such bond
to said treasurer conditioned for the faithful performance of
his duty as the said treasurer may require; said assistant
treasurer to be paid by the county treasurer out of the salary
and commissions allowed to him for the collection of county
and State taxes in St. Mary's County.

(b) The County Commissioners of said county shall provide
the said treasurer with proper stationery, books, blanks and
other necessary appointments for an office, which office they
shall always provide and furnish in the Town of Leonard-
town; and the treasurer appointed by this section and those
to be hereafter elected shall receive an annual salary of twelve
hundred dollars, to be paid monthly by the County Commis-
sioners of said county; and before he enters upon the discharge
of the duties of his said office as treasurer, he and his successors
in office shall take and subscribe before the Clerk of the Circuit
Court the oath prescribed by Section 6 of Article 1 of the
Constitution of Maryland; and shall execute to the State of
Maryland two bonds, one in the penalty of fifteen thousand
'dollars, conditioned for the proper collection and payment to
the State Comptroller of all State taxes placed in his hands
for collection, and another in the penalty of twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, conditioned for the proper collection and dis-
bursement of all moneys coming into his hands for the county,
; and the faithful performance of other duties devolving upon
him; such bonds to be approved as bonds of the sheriffs of the
respective counties of this State are approved and to be
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for St.
Mary's County, and a copy of said State bond shall be for-
warded to the State Comptroller as soon as the original shall
have been recorded, as above required.

61. (a) The said treasurer shall keep his office in Leonard-
town open from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock
in the afternoon every working day, except Saturday when he