Any taxpayer desiring to appeal under Section 40-7-45 shall file with the officer, board, or commission, or some member thereof, a notice in writing that he appeals to the circuit court, together with a bond in the sum of $100, with at least one solvent surety, payable to the State of Alabama, conditioned to prosecute such appeal to effect and, upon failure so to do, to pay all costs and damages which may be adjudged against him by the circuit court on such appeal; the bond to be approved by the probate judge or circuit clerk of the county.
Ala. Code § 40-7-46 (1975)