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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved February 28, 1945.

CHAPTER 176.
(House Bill 89)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 154
of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Cecil County", sub-title "County
Treasurer", as said section was amended by Chapter 706 of
the Acts of 1943, relating to the bonds to be given by the
Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer of Cecil County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 154 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cecil County", sub-
title "County Treasurer", as said section was amended by
Chapter 706 of the Acts of 1943, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

154. The legal and qualified voters of Cecil County shall at
the General State Election, to be held in the year 1946, and
every four years thereafter, elect some person, a resident of said
county, to be Treasurer of Cecil County, whose duty it shall be
to collect and disburse, upon the lawful orders of the County
Commissioners of Cecil County, all taxes levied in Cecil County
and for this purpose he is clothed with all the powers possessed
by collectors of taxes under the provisions, of the Code of
Public ^General Laws, and the persons elected to said office
under the provisions of this section shall hold said office for
four years from the first Monday in July succeeding their elec-
tion. The Assistant Treasurer shall be elected by the votes of
the legally qualified voters of said county whose term of office
shall begin at the same time as that of the Treasurer, and
whose duties shall be such as may be assigned to him by the
Treasurer. The Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer and their
successors in office shall each execute to the State of Maryland
a corporate surety bond in such penal sum as the State Comp-
troller may prescribe, with the condition that if the above
bound Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer shall well and faith-
fully execute his office and shall account for to the Comptroller
and pay to the Treasurer of the State the several sums of
money which he shall receive for the State, or be answerable
for by law, at such times as the law shall direct, then the said