178 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. SS

Whenever property has been sold by one Town Clerk and
Treasurer for taxes pursuant to law, and such sale has been
reported and the deed executed by the successor in office of
the Town Clerk and Treasurer who made the sale as aforesaid,
such report and such conveyance shall be as valid to all in-
tents and purposes as they would have been if made by the
Town Clerk and Treasurer who made the sale. Whenever
property has been sold for taxes, pursuant to law, by one Town
Clerk and Treasurer, and such sale has been reported by the
Town Clerk and Treasurer, who made the same, but the deed
for such property has been executed and delivered by the suc-
cessor in office of the Town Clerk and Treasurer who made
such sale and report as aforesaid such conveyance shall be
as valid to all intents and purposes as it would have been if
made by the Town Clerk and Treasurer who made and re-
ported the sale.

Whenever there shall be a default in the payment of taxes on
personal property and the Town Clerk and Treasurer shall
have distrained or levied upon the same for non-payment of
any taxes due by the owner thereof, before making sale of the
property so distrained or levied upon, said Town Clerk and
Treasurer shall give notice by advertisement published once
a week for two successive weeks prior to the date of sale, in a
weekly newspaper published in Prince George's County that he
will sell for cash, at public auction, to the highest bidder, on the
day and at the time and place mentioned in said advertisements,
the property therein specified, unless on or before the day of
sale the entire amount of taxes for which such distraint or
levy shall have been made, with interest thereon, and all costs
of making said distraint or levy and advertisement, shall be
paid.

Every Town Clerk and Treasurer who shall sell any personal
property levied or distrained upon for taxes, after due adver-
tisement, as herein provided, shall retain out of the proceeds of
sale the amount of taxes due from the delinquent, for which
such levy or distraint shall have been made, with interest
thereon, and all costs incurred in making said sale, and shall
pay over the surplus, if any, to the owner of the property so
levied or distrained upon and sold. All the provisions of this
section in reference to the sale of real property which may be
applicable to the sale of personal property shall be in force as
to said personal property.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That before tins Act
shall become effective the Mayor and Common Council of Mount