HOWARD COUNTY. 895

the present outstanding indebtedness of fifteen hundred dollars
of said city, and after the present outstanding indebtedness

shall be repaid that said special tax shall not thereafter be
levied. Said levy shall be made by the Mayor and City Coun-
cil in each succecding year, beginning with the year nineteen
hundred and ten, on or before the first day of July, and said
taxes shall be due and payable fifteen days after the publication
of the ordinance imposing the tax rate, and if not paid when
due they shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum until
the same are paid.

71. It shall be the duty of the registrar, as soon as the annual
tax levy is made and placed in his hands for collection, to give
notice thereof by advertisement in one newspaper published in

said Ellicott City, which notice shall state the time from which
taxes bear interest, and shall warn all persons of their liability
to be published as delinquent taxpayers and to have their prop-
erty sold unless the taxes with which they are respectively
charged are paid on or before the first day of January then
next ensuing. He shall also immediately after said 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 out an alphabetical list of
taxes due and in arrears, which list shall contain the name or
names of the person or persons or body corporate assessed with
property upon which taxes are due and in arrear, a brief de-
scription of the property, and such reference to conveyances as
will render the same certain of identification, and the amount
of taxes levied and in arrears, with 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 ensuing, together
with the interest accrued thereon and the proportional cost of
advertising and fees, he will proceed at ten o'clock A. M., on
said second Monday in April, at the Court House door in Elli-
cott City, to offer each and every of said parcels of land for sale
to the highest bidder for cash, which said list and notice shall
toe published in said city for four successive weeks prior to the

first Monday in March, and on said second Monday in April the
registrar shall, at the hour and place named in said advertise-
ment, 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 have
been paid, and shall continue such sales on each secular day,
legal holidays excepted, from 10 o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock
P. M., until every parcel shall have been offered. Should the