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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter one hundred and twenty-three, title "City of Balti-
more," sub-title "Charter," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

Manner of
conducting
the sale of land
for payment
of taxes.

Sec. 43. Whenever it shall become necessary to sell any
part or parcel of ground in the City of Baltimore, improved
or unimproved, for the payment of any taxes or assessment of
any nature or kind whatever, levied or charged, the City
Collector shall first give notice by advertisement, published
once a week for four successive weeks in two of the daily
newspapers published in said city, one of which shall be in
the German language, that he will sell said property at
public auction on the day in the said advertisement mentioned ;
said notice shall state the name of the person, when known,
to whom such parcel of ground is assessed, the amount of
taxes due on the same, and what improvements, if any, are
on said parcel of ground; and to properly describe said
property the City Surveyor shall actually survey and furnish
to the City Collector a description and plat of each lot, so in
arrear, and the sum to be paid for each survey, including the
description and plot, shall be three dollars and fifty-cents,
said sum to be added to the tax bill and collected in the saint
manner as the bill itself. The collector shall before adver-
tising said property for sale give to the person or persons so in
arrears or to one of them if more than one, or leave at his, or
her, or their residence or last known residence of one of them,
and if no such residence be known, there shall be left upon
the premises so to be sold for taxes a statement of his, or her,
or their indebtedness, and not less than thirty days notice of
his said collector's intention, if the bill is not paid, to enforce
the payment thereof by distraint or execution.

Notice by
advertisement
when taxes
become due,
etc.

Sec. 51. The City Collector shall not be required to dis-
train for any taxes assessed or levied upon estate or personal
property, but he shall at least two weeks before the taxes
become payable, give notice by advertisement in three daily
papers published in Baltimore City, of the day on which all
taxes for the ensuing fiscal year become due, and shall on the
application in person or by agent or by mail of any person to
whom property is assessed, deliver or send by mail a bill show-
ing the amount of taxes due by such person two weeks before
the day on which such taxes shall by law be in arrear, he
shall give notice by advertisement in the same way that all
taxes not paid on or before that date will be in arrears; and
that the property on which said taxes are levied will then be
subject to be sold for taxes; and said notice shall further state