Section 17

Section XVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the accounts of county treasurers for any monies received by them for tavern licenses and exempt fines, shall be settled on or before the last day of December in each and every year, and the monies so received paid over to the state treasurer within three months, deducting therefrom a commission in the following proportion, viz: For any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, five per cent.; when the amount exceeds that sum, five per cent. on the first five hundred dollars, and at the rate of two per cent. for all above that sum, until it amounts to one thousand dollars, and at the rate of one per cent. for all in addition to the sum last mentioned, which the accountant officers are hereby directed to allow; and it is hereby made the duty of the county treasurers to enforce the payment by collectors of militia exempt fines, in the same manner as the payment of county rates and levies are enforced.