HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 447

CHAPTER 407.
(Senate Bill 261)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
117 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County, " sub-
title "County Treasurer and Taxes, " as amended by
Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1939, providing for the com-
pensation of tax collectors for Allegany County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 117 of Article 1 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Allegany County, " sub-title "County Treasurer and
Taxes, " as amended by Chapter 6, 1 of the Acts of 1939,
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

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
directly or collaterally within the third degree (nor mar-
ried 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 54 and 55 of Article 81
of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of
Maryland, with personal or corporate surety or sureties
as to his bond for County Taxes to be approved 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 District, shall be in the sum of Fifty Thou-
sand Dollars; and the said County Commissioners at their
April Session in the year 1943, and each four years there-
after shall, before the said Collectors enter upon the per-