HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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penalty as may be prescribed by the county commissioners,
county council, or county executive, as the case may be, but
in no case less than the penalty fixed by existing local
laws, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by
the county commissioners, county council, or county
executive, as the case may be; and the collector of city
taxes in the City of Baltimore, before he acts as such shall
give bond to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore in such
penalty as may be prescribed by the board of estimates of
the City of Baltimore. The condition of such bonds shall be
that if the above bound .... shall well and faithfully
execute his office and shall account for and pay to the
county commissioners, county council, or county executive,
as the case may be, or to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, if in said city, or their order, the several sums
of money which he shall receive for the county or city, as
the case may be, or be answerable for by law, at such times
as the law shall direct, then the said obligation to be
void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in
law. Neither the collector of city taxes in the City of
Baltimore, nor his bond, shall be liable to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore for money not actually received by
him because of the dishonesty or negligence of his employee;
provided, however, that any such employee shall have first
given a bond to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore in a
penalty to be prescribed by the board of estimates of the
City of Baltimore. The condition of such bond shall be that
if the above bound .... shall well and faithfully execute
his office, and shall account for and pay to the collector
of city taxes in the City of Baltimore for the several sums
of money which he shall receive for said collector, or be
answerable for by law, at such times as said collector may
direct, then such obligation to be void, otherwise to remain
in full force and virtue in law. The said bond of such
employee of said collector, when approved by said collector,
shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the
[Superior Court of] CIRCUIT COURT FOR Baltimore City.

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Every such collector in the counties shall also give a
separate bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty as
may be prescribed by the Comptroller of the treasury with
the approval of the Governor, with good and sufficient
sureties, to be approved by the Governor, with the condition

that if the above bound ..... shall well and faithfully

execute his office and shall account for to the Comptroller
and pay to the Treasurer of the State the several sums of
money which he shall receive for the State, or be answerable
for by law at such times as the law shall direct, then the
said obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full
force and effect. The city collector in the City of
Baltimore before he acts as collector of State's taxes in
said city shall give a bond with good and sufficient
sureties to the State of Maryland in a penalty of