In the event said board of commissioners exercise the authority vested in them by section 1 hereof, the board shall appoint some qualified person to fill said office of “tax collector,” to serve at the will of the board and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, who shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners. And the board is further authorized to employ and pay personnel as it may designate in connection with the office of “tax collector.” Such officer shall give bond in some surety company authorized to do business in North Carolina in the sum of at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00), which shall be approved by the board of commissioners, who may pay the premiums thereon.
(Sess. Laws 1963, ch. 83, § 2.)