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7.    Have custody of all public monies belonging to or under the
control of the town, except as to funds in the control of any set of trustees,
and have custody of all bonds and notes of the town.

8.    Do such other things in relation to the fiscal or financial affairs
of the town as the Mayor or the Council may require or as may be required
elsewhere in this charter (1955, ch. 258; 1966, ch. 572).

(c) The treasurer shall provide a bond with such corporate security
and in such amount as the Council by ordinance may require.

8-33. Clerk, duties; [Treasurer.]

There shall be elected annually by the Mayor and Common Council
one person as clerk of said town, whose duty and compensation shall be
prescribed and regulated by the Mayor and Common Council, [to hold
office from the first day of June for one year, and the said clerk within
thirty days after the completion of the assessment and the fixing of the
rate of tax is to deliver to the treasurer a copy of said document, and
the treasurer shall collect the same as herein provided, and the bond of
the said treasurer shall be liable for all sums of money that shall appear
to be due on account of taxes as aforesaid, until the same shall have been
accounted for and paid over according to law provided that the said Mayor
and Common Council may deduct from the said sum all amounts that shall
appear to them as uncollectible, and said treasurer shall be paid a salary
of $100 per annum.] The taxes so levied shall be due as soon as levied
and shall be in arrears on the first day of October succeeding their levy;
and shall bear interest at six percent therefrom, and it shall be the duty
of the Mayor and Common Council to direct and order the treasurer to
enforce the payment of all taxes except such as shall be uncollectible.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED that
Sections 8-30, 8-31, 8-34, and 8-35 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Prince George's County, Maryland (1963 Edition), subtitled, "Capitol
Heights," be and they are hereby repealed.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED that
any section or sections of the Charter of the Town of Capitol Heights which
are inconsistent with the above-amended sections be and the same are
hereby repealed.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED that
the aforegoing proposed amendment shall be posted in the Town Hall of
Capitol Heights, Maryland, for a period of at least forty (40) days follow-
ing its adoption, and shall further be published in The Enquirer-Gazette
newspaper once in each of four successive weeks before the 20th day of
December, 1969.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED that
the proposed amendment will become and be considered as a part of the
Municipal Charter of Capitol Heights, Maryland, on the 30th day of
December, 1969, unless a petition is filed with the Mayor and Common
Council of Capitol Heights, pursuant to Article 23A, Section 13, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957 Edition, as amended, said petition to
be filed on or before the 20th day of December, 1969.

Leo P. Forami, Mayor
Bruce R. Bart
Angelo D. Bruzzese
William L. Carpenter