THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1846.

heirs at law, and those claiming under him, her or them,
until the same shall be fully paid and satisfied; provided
that in case the devisee or heir at law, liable to the tax, is
a minor, the estate should only be charged with the
amount of tax, with interest, at the rate of six per centum
per annum, until paid.

CHAP. 203.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the several and respective registers of wills, on the first
days of July and January, in each and every year after
the passage of this act, to account with, upon oath, and
pay into the Treasury, all sums of money received by
them under the provisions of this act, and the act to
which this is a supplement, for which their official bonds
shall be liable, retaining for their compensation a com-
mission of two and a half per centum on the amount so
paid, and in case the said registers shall fail to account
and pay as aforesaid, within thirty days alter the days
above limited for that purpose, the Treasurer shall give
notice thereof to the Attorney General, or to his proper

Registers to
account upon
oath.

deputy, whose duty it shall be to put the bond of such
register in suit, for the use of this State, and a recovery
shall be had upon the said bond for the whole amount
due from such default, and a recovery upon the bond of
any register for a default, under the provisions of this
act, or of the original act to which this is a supplement,
shall be evidence of misbehaviour in office, and ipso facto
remove such register from office, which thereupon shall

Bond in office.

be filled by the Governor, as prescribed by the consti-
tution and laws of this State, and the said register shall
by such default, forfeit the commission allowed him by
this act.

CHAPTER 203.

Remove regis-
ter from office.

A further additional supplement to the act entitled, an act
for the General Valuation and Assessment of Property
in this State, and to provide a tax to pay the Debts of
the State, passed at March, session, eighteen hundred
and forty-one, chapter twenty-three.

Passed Mar.
2, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That if the levy courts or commissioners
of the several counties, and of Howard District, and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, shall fail to im-
pose the assessment or tax, imposed by the original act

Fail to impose
the assessment
of tax.