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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments
Section forty-five of Article eighty-one of the,
Code of Public General Laws, entitled " Reve-
nue and Taxes,"

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Section forty-five of Article
eighty-one of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled Revenue and Taxes, be, and the same ia
hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows:

Collector to
pay Treasurer.

45. And be U enacted, That every Collector of
State Taxes, except the Collector of State Taxes in
the City of Baltimore, shall account for and pay to
the Treasurer, two-thirds thereof on the first of
January annually, and the remaining third on the
first of April thereafter; and that whenever the
Mayor, and City Council of Baltimore shall have
placed the collection of State Taxes in the hands
of the City Collector, and said City Collector shall
die, resign his office, or be removed therefrom, or
his term of office as City Collector, immediately
upon his death, resignation, removal, or the expi-
ration of his term of office as aforesaid, all his
power and authority to collect State Taxes shall
cease and determine, and all bills for State Taxes
then in arrear, and the books and papers relating
thereto shall be delivered by him to his successor
in the office of Collector of State Taxes in said city;

To enforce.

who shall proceed to collect the same, and shall
have all the power and authority to enforce the
payment thereof, which are now conferred by law,
for the collection of other State Taxes placed in
his hands for collection, shall account for said
arrears, and deposit daily his collections thereof in
the same manner as is now provided by law with
reference to other State Taxes placed in his hands
for collection, and that no pending suit or other
proceeding instituted by any Collector of State
Taxes in the City of Baltimore shall abate by rea-

Power to
continue.

son of his death, resignation, removal, or the ex-
piration of his term of office as aforesaid, but all
such suits or other proceedings shall be entered to
the use of his successor in said office, who shall