JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

his office, and shall account for and pay to the Clerk of the
County Commissioners the several sums of money received by
him for or on account of taxes placed in his hands for col-
lection, or for which he may be answerable, when and at the
times required by law, then this obligation to be void, else to
be and remain in full force and virtue in law.

Approved March 27, 1900.

CHAPTER 117.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 18 and 19 of the Charter of
Takoma Park, Maryland, and to re-enact said Sections
18 and 19.

133

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 18 and 19 of the Charter of the Town
of Takoma Park, in Prince George's and Montgomery coun-
ties, Maryland, as amended by the Act approved April 2,
1896, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Takoma Park
Charter.

(18.) On or before the last day of June in each year the
Council shall, by ordinance, levy the general taxes for the
fiscal year next ensuing, which taxes shall not exceed seventy-
five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessable property .
Such taxes shall be due immediately on the levy thereof, and
if the taxes due from any person or corporation shall not be
paid before the first day of November following, there shall
be added on that day a penalty of one per centum thereof,
and a like penalty of one per centum on the first day of each
succeeding month until such taxes and penalties shall be
paid; provided, however, that taxes paid prior to the first
day of November of any year shall be subject to a discount
as follows: Taxes paid during July, four per cent.; during
August, three per cent.; during September, two per cent.;
and during October, one per cent.

Shall levy the
general taxes
Rate and
when due.

(b.) On or before the third Monday in April of each year,
but not earlier than the first day of April, the Treasurer shall
offer at public sale, at some place within the town to be
designated in his public notice of sale, all real property which
is then subject to lien for delinquent taxes tinder the pro-
visions of this charter, whether for the year current or for
previous years, or so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay the delinquent taxes due from the owners thereof respec-

Delinquent
taxes.