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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to repeal section forty-six, of article ten of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, re-
lating to the town of Cambridge in Dorchester
county, as amended by act of eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, chapter one hundred and seven-
ty-five, and to re-enact the same in an amended
form.

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section forty-six of article ten, of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, relating to
the town of Cambridge in Dorchester county as
amended by act of Assembly, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, chapter one hundred and seventy-five,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Alphabetical
list.

46. Whenever the commissioners shall levy a tax
for the corporate purposes of said town, provided the
amount levied shall not exceed in any one year,
thirty cents on the hundred dollars upon the valua-
tion of the assessable property of said town; they
shall make out an alphabetical list, of the persons
chargable therewith with the sums payable by each
annexed, and shall also annex thereto a warrant to
the bailiff to collect the said tax; and the bailiff,
within ten days after receiving such warrant and

Shall deliver.

list, shall deliver to each person therein named an
account of the taxes payable by such person, and
unless the said taxes shall be paid within twenty
days after such account shall have been rendered,
the bailiff may collect the same by distress and sale
of the goods and chattels of the delinquent, or if
there be no goods and chattels, the real estate of the
delinquent shall be sold by the bailiff, and his mode
of procedure shall conform to the existing laws
governing the sale of real estate for county and State
taxes, and the bailiff shall within two months after
the receipt of the said warrant and list, account for
and pay the sums collected to the commissioners

Penalty.

under a penalty of twenty-five dollars in each case.