The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-08-25
NOTICE
To Tax Collectors and Others.

NohPTolitI Vlhcei Anhapolls Nh.
VOUR attention is hereby called to the
Il following Laws passed at the January
Session, 1870, to wit
CHAPTER 325-SuB SECTION 5.-It shall
be the duty Of the several collectors Of taxes
to pay oUer under oath 10 the Treasurer of
the State Of Maryland, and to the treasurer
of the respective counties, or to return un.
der oath to the County Commissioners of
the respective counties where there is no
county treasurer, on tie first Tuesday of
July nert, after said taxes are placed in their
hands for collection, and on The first Tues.
day iR each and ereIy October, JdnuarV,
ApiL, July, and thereafter, the amount col.
leCted by them, until the collections are
completed and on failure to make such
quarterly payments or returns, the dciiH.
queRt collector mag be repored 5y the County,
Commissioners, and at the end of the time
herein allowed for the collection 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 re
turn, under OATH of the whole amount of
taxes collected by them during 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 for the whole amount thereof TO the
State Treasurer and to the county treasurer
or Che County Commissioners, or their order
respectively, except such sums as the Coun.
ty Commissioners, upon the examination OF
the returns OF said collection, may deter.
mine TO he aud 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 Comptroller may
cause suit to be brought on the bonds given
for State taxes to the next term of the Cir.
cut Court thereafter; aud the said Court is
hereby authorized and required, upon mo.
uon OF the attorney of said Commissioners,
or the attorney OF the State, after notice to
SAID collectors and their sureties, to take
judgment without stay of execution for such
amounts as may be found due by them for
non payment or settlement of said taxes,
and the amount of said judgment shall be
collected within ninety days thereafter nor
snail any case be postponed beyond the
term Of the said Circuit Court in which such
action may be brought, as hereinbeTare pre-.
scribed.
Sug SEC. G.-The County Commissioners
shd4 nat 70 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 exp.
cation of the year in which such tax bills
have been placed in their hands for coIec
ton, unless said County Commissioners
shall have been sat- fled by a statement made
to them under oath, that the said collectors
have complied with all the requirements of
Jus law aud that the said deiuquencics
were uncollectable; and the said Commits.
sioners may require from collectors any
further proof which in their judgment may
seem necessary.
CHATTER 36l-Srcr,ox o-tnd J.. !,
enacted. That ifony CycyE Pcni,Jsr ~ I'm, 4"
Sheriff. Collector of Tare, Notgrg% p !" H.
or other officer p6ose duty Il is 10 coHec,
rerenus d,le he SJoJe If H,r,L,,J .'.'ot'