JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Sec. 25. The treasurer immediately upon receiving the
assessment or rate of taxes shall give notice posted in not
less than three public places in the town, and by two weekly
insertions in at least one and not more than two newspapers
published in said town of Hyattsville, of the time when and
the place where he will be collecting and receiving the same,
and after he has given the notice, as directed by this section,
and delivered the tax bills to the parties in whose name they
are assessed, or at their usual place of abode, or on the prem-
ises; then as to all those who fail to pay their taxes on or
before the same are due and in arrear, as prescribed by this
section, it shall only be necessary for him, after obtaining an
order from the Mayor and Common Council authorizing him
to sell real or personal property for the payment of any taxes
then remaining due and unpaid, it being the intent and mean-
ing of this section to require all persons, body politic and cor-
porate, owing taxes to the town, to pay the same to the
treasurer at such place and time as he may designate in said
town.

Collection of
taxes.

26. Upon receiving an order from the Mayor and Common
Council to enforce the payment of unpaid taxes, he shall
leave with the parties by whom the taxes are to be paid or at
his usual place of abode, or on the premises, if the party does
not reside in town, a statement showing the amount of taxes
due thereon, with a notice thereto annexed that unless the
taxes are paid within thirty days thereafter he will proceed
by way of distress or levy to collect the same.

Unpaid taxes.

27. The Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville may
purchase and hold any property, real, personal or mixed, for
town purposes, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said
town, and may erect suitable buildings for municipal pur-
poses, the cost thereof not to exceed two thousand dollars.

May erect
buildings.

28. And the Mayor and Common Council shall deliver to
the purchaser at any tax sale, as heretofore provided, for the
collection of taxes a deed of the real property so sold, and the
said deed shall convey to the purchaser the said property, and
shall be presumptive evidence that all the requirements of
the law have been complied with in making such sale and

Property sold
for taxes.

deed; but the delinquent taxpayer shall have the right to
redeem at any time within two years by paying the unpaid
tax and costs, with legal interest, and a penalty of lo per
cent, thereon. Section twenty-six is applicable only where
property is sold at public auction, after giving at least ten
days' public notice of said sale in at least one and not more

Right
to redeem.