ART. 14.] HOWARD COUNTY. 871

collection of taxes therein,' and re-enact with amendments
sections 5, 7 and 10 of said chapter."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 7 of the Acts of 1900, chapter 455, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re enacted with amendments so as
to read as follows:

7. It shall be the duty of the treasurer, as soon as the an-
nual tax levy shall have been made and placed in his hands, to
give notice thereof by advertisement in one newspaper pub-
lished in Howard county, which notice shall state the time from
which taxes bear interest, and shall warn all taxpayers of their
liability to be published as delinquent taxpayers and to have
their property sold unless the taxes with which they are
charged are paid on or before the first day of January then next
ensuing. He shall also, immediately after the levy is made,
make out the bill of each taxpayer, to which a similar notice
shall be annexed, and upon application shall forward the bill
by mail or otherwise to the person, or his agent, to whom taxes
have been assessed. Immediately upon the first day of January,
in each and every year, he shall make an alphabetical list by
election districts, as now established by law, in their numerical
order, of taxes due and in arrears, which list shall contain the
name or names of the person or persons or body corporate as-
sessed with property upon which taxes are due and in arrears,
a brief description of the property, and such references to con-
veyances as will render the same certain of identification, and
the amount of the tax levied and in arrears, with the interest
and costs accrued, and to accrue thereon to the day of sale, to
which list shall be appended a notice that if the said tax or taxes
are not paid on or before the second Monday in April next ensu-
ing, together with the interest accrued thereon and the propor-
tional cost of advertising and fees, he will proceed at 10
o'clock A. M. on said second Monday in April, at the courthouse
in said county, to offer each and every of said parcels of land for
sale to the highest bidder for cash, which said list and notice
shall be published in said county for four successive weeks
prior to the second Monday in March, and on said second Mon-
day in April the treasurer shall, at the hour and place named in
said advertisement, proceed to sell any and all such pieces or
parcels of land and premises, beginning with the first on said
list, and so on in order, upon which taxes, interest, costs and
fees shall not then have been paid, and shall continue such sales
on each secular day, legal holidays excepted, from ten o'clock
A. M. until three o'clock P. M. until every parcel shall have been
offered; should the treasurer, by reason of illness, or other dis-