J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        459

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 79 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County
(1957 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Howard County," subtitle "County Treasurer," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

79.

The person so as aforesaid appointed, before he enters upon the
duties of his said office, shall take an oath before the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Howard County, in form similar to that now taken
by collectors of taxes, except as to the title of his office and to be
similarly certified, he shall execute to the State of Maryland, a
separate bond in the penal sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars with at
least three sureties, as the collector of State Taxes, which bond shall
be approved and filed in like manner, as other bonds of collectors of
State taxes, and he shall execute to the State of Maryland, a separate
bond in the penal sum of Forty Thousand Dollars, with at least three
sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners of Howard
County with the condition that if the above bounden shall well and
faithfully execute his office of Treasurer of Howard County, and shall
account for and pay to the County Commissioners aforesaid or their
order, or as the law may direct, the several sums which he shall
receive for said county, or be answerable for by law at such time
and in such manner as the law shall direct, then the said obligation
to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law;
and said bond when approved, shall be recorded in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County, he shall execute the
bond hereinbefore required and qualify within thirty days after the
receipt of his commission by the clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard
County, and in the event of his removal from office, his death or
resignation during his term of office, the Governor shall [at once
appoint his successor] appoint the person to fill such vacancy whose
name shall be submitted to him in writing by the State Central Com-
mittee of Howard County of the political party with which the
Treasurer, so vacating, has been affiliated, provided, that the ap-
pointee shall be of the same political party as the person whose office
is to be filled; and it shall be the duty of the Governor to make said
appointment within fifteen days after the submission thereof to him,
[who] which said appointee shall qualify and bond as aforesaid, and
so continue to appoint until a treasurer qualifies as herein provided;
provided, that such new treasurer so taking the place made vacant by
death, removal or resignation, shall not collect nor take charge of any
of the taxes that may be in hands of said late treasurer uncollected,
and for which the bonds of said late treasurer are responsible; but
such taxes shall be collected under existing laws applicable to collec-
tion of State and county taxes when there is death or resignation.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.