The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-09-02
NOTICE
TO
Collectors & Taxpayers

ME attention OF Taxpayers and Collec-
i tors of Taxes in Hartford county is call
ed to the following laws passed by the Gem
eral Assembly of Maryland at the January
Session, 1870, to wit
CHAPTER 325-Sub.s section g. 1t shall be
the duty of the several Collectors of taxes
to pay over under oath to the Treasurer of
the State of Maryland and to the Treasurer
Of the respective counties, OF to return under
oath to the County Commissioners of the re-
spective counties where there is no county
Treasurer, on the first Tuesday of July next,
after said taxes are placed in their hands for
collection, and on the first Tuesday in each
and every October, January, April, July and
thereafter, the amount collected by them,
until the collections are completed; and on
failure to make such quarterly payments or
returns, the delinquent Collector may be re-
moved by the County Commissioners, and at
the end of the time herein allowed for the
collections aforesaid by said Collectors they
and each of them shall make to the County
Treasurer, or to the County Commissioners
where there is no County Treasurer, full
and complete return, under oath, of the
whole amount of taxes collected by them du-
ring the year, and on failure to complete
within eighteen months from the day and
date of receiving said taxes for collection the
collection and return of the whole amount
thereof to the State Treasurer, and to the
County Treasurer or the County Commits
sioners, OF their order respectively, except
such sums as the County Commissioners upon
the examination of the returns of said collec-
ton may determine to be and to have been
uncollectable, their bonds shall be liable for
the same, and the County Commissioners
shall cause suit to be brought on the bonds
given for the county taxes, and the Comp
m To ha h.n 1nhf fl,o
bonds given for State taxes to the next term
of the Circuit Court thereafter, and
the said Court is hereby authorized and
required upon motion of the attorney of said
Commissioners, or the attorney of the State,
after notice to said Collectors and their sure
ties to take judgment without stay of execu-
ton for such amounts as may be found due
by them for nonpayment or settlement of
said taxes, and the amount of said
judgment shall be collected within ninety
days thereafter; nor shall any case be
postponed beyond the term of said Circuit
Court in which such action may be brought
as hereinbefore prescribed.
Subsection g. The County Commissioners
shall not re-appoint any person as Collector
of State or county taxes whose collections
have not been made, and whose accounts
have not been settled in full as Collector of
taxes within twelve months after the expira-
ton of the year in which such tax bills have
been placed in their hands for collection, I'M
less said County Commissioners shall have
been satisfied by statement made to them
under oath that the said Collectors have COM
piled with all the requirements of this law,
and that the said deinquencies were uncol-
lectable; and the said Commissioners may
require from Collectors any further proof,
which in their judgment may seem necessa-
ny. l4 t.aIlat ~
CHAPTER 361-Section 2. And be at enac-
ted, That if any Clerk, Register of Wills,
Sheriff, Collector of Taxes, Notary Public, or
other officer whose duty it is to collect rev
enue due the State of Maryland, or any coun-
ty thereof, shall after the receipt of the said
revenue by him, wilfully detain the same in
his possession, and neglect to pay the same
into the Treasury of the State, OF to the
County Commissioners, or the proper
officer authorized to receive the same, for
more than sixty days after the day upon
which it is made by law his duty to pay the
same, or if no particular day be appointed by
law for said payment, and such officer shall
detain any revenue due to the State, or to
any county thereof, and which it is his duty to
collect, and which he shall have collected and
shall neglect to pay the same into the Treas.
urY of the State, or TO the County Commits
sioners, OF the proper officer authorised to
receive the same, for the space of six months
after he shall have so collected the same,
such officer so offending in either case shall
be deemed to be Defaulter, and upon indict-
ment and conviction thereof, shall in addition
to any other penalties already provided by law,
be punished by fine not exceeding five hun.
dred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceed
ing sixty days for each offence.
Compliance with the terms of the law on
these points is required of the Board of Coun
ty Commissioners, and all concerned will
take due notice and govern themselves ac-
cordingly. .as
Published by order of the Board,
JAS. A. FULTON,
au26 Clerk.