PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

have a further time of four months, from the first day
of August, to the first day of December, in each and
every year, and shall have deducted three-fourths of
the per centage levied for the collection thereof, and
every tax payer who shall pay, between the first day
of December, and the last day of March, in each and
every year, shall have deducted from his tax bill, one-
half of the per centage levied for the collection there-
of, and it shall be a part of the duty of the treasurer
to deduct from the tax bill or bills of said person of,
persons, the per centage specified as aforesaid, for the
collection of the State and district taxes, and if the

said tax payers of said district fail to pay their taxes,
or any part thereof, by the last day of March, in each
and every year, as hereinbefore authorised, it shall be
the duty of the commissioners of Howard District,
and they are hereby required immediately to place the
arrears of taxes not paid as aforesaid, into the hands
of the Sheriff of Howard District, who shall proceed
to collect and complete the same within nine months
from the time said taxes are planed in his possession,
according to the existing laws made and provided for
the collection of the taxes.

CHAP. 427.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the treasurer, acting
as such, and as clerk, shall make out all tax bills on
or before the fifteenth of April, and as the persons tall
to pay them, he is hereby authorised to receipt the,
same, and deposit the money with the treasurer of
Maryland, and the said payments shall be made quar-
terly, on the first day of August, November, February,
and May, in each and every year, and all the district
tax shall be at the disposal of the commissioners of
Howard District, and for the faithful performance of
his duties in receiving the State tax, he shall give
bond and security to the State of Maryland, as the
direct tax law now requires, and in case of the refusal
or neglect of said treasurer to give such bond, with
the security aforesaid, on or before the fifteenth day
of October, in each and every year, his office shall be
declared, by said board of commissioners, as vacated,
and they shall proceed to elect some other person, and
so on, until they fill the office with some proper per-
son.

To make out
and receipt tax
bills, etc.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said treasurer
shall keep his office open from nine o'clock in the fore-
noon until three in the afternoon, each and every day
during the week, Sundays excepted, and the said board
of commissioners, at their discretion, may allow him an

Compensation.