1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 204.

pointed and give bond after the passage of this act, shall
have power and authority to receive all arrearages of
taxes and the interest thereon for any preceding year, in
addition to the taxes due for the particular years for
which they may be appointed, and to give good and va-

Give good and
valid discharg-
es.

lid discharges to all and every person or persons who
may pay the same, and the said collectors shall account
with, and pay into the Treasury, all such additional sums
of money so received by them, in the same manner, and
at the same period at which they are required to make
their other payments into the Treasury, receiving for the
collection of such additional sums, the same rate of com-
mission; and further that all such additional payments
heretofore made to the several collectors shall be deem-
ed valid and effectual, so as to protect the parties pay-

Proviso.

ing from any further demand in respect thereof; provided,

that in those counties in which collectors have been here-
tofore appointed and qualified for the collection of taxes
for the intervening years, and have not completed their
collections, the authority of the collectors referred to in
this section, so far as relates to the taxes of years for
which they are not appointed collectors, shall not be
construed to extend.

Duty of clerks,

&c.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the clerks of the several county courts, and of Howard
District court, at each annual meeting of the commis-
sioners of the tax, and of the levy courts of the several
counties, and of Howard District, and of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, for the purpose of levying
the taxes for the use of this State, to lay before those
bodies a correct list of all the mortgages filed in their re-
spective offices since the last preceding annual levy,
showing the amount of the debts thereby secured, in or-
der that the sums secured by such mortgages, shall be
included in the levy, then to be made, for which service

Allowed ten
cents.

the respective clerks shall be allowed the sum of ten cents
for each mortgage, to be charged against, and paid by
the counties and the city of Baltimore respectively.

CHAPTER 204.

Passed Mar.
2, 1846.

An act to incorporate the Agricultural Society of So-
merset County.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That George Handy, Isaac D. Jones, Wm.