HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 935

be at least twenty-five years of age, and shall not be
related directly or collaterally within the third degree
(nor married to any one so related) to any member of
the Board of County Commissioners, making such appoint-
ment, and the said Collector shall not be eligible for re-
election for the term next ensuing; and each of said Col-
lectors before entering upon the discharge of his or her
duties shall give bond conditioned for the faithful per-
formance 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 Thousand Dollars; and the said
County Commissioners at their April Session in the year
1943, and each four years thereafter shall, before the said
Collectors enter upon the performance of their duties fix
the salary or compensation of each of the said Tax Col-
lectors for the ensuing term, to be paid by s the Commis-
sioners, and not retained out of the collections by the
Collector, which amount so fixed by said Commissioners
shall be in full of all compensation of "every kind to be
paid the said respective Collectors for collecting the State
and County Taxes so placed in their hands for collection
during their said term of office; and the salary ore com-
pensation shall be upon a commission basis to be deter-
mined by the County Commissioners, but said commission
shall not exceed one and one-eighth (1 1/8%) per centum
for the First Tax Collection District nor three per centum
for the Second and Third Collection Districts respectively,
and shall be payable in monthly installments only on taxes
collected and paid over; one-third of all amounts payable
to either of the Tax Collectors for the First, Second, and
Third Tax Collection Districts shall be retained or with-
held by the Commissioners until final settlement by the
respective collectors with said Commissioners; which said
sums or commission shall include all expenses of what-
soever kind incurred by said Collectors in the collection
of said taxes; said County Commissioners shall not allow