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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, relating to the town of Cambridge in Dorchester county, as amended by act of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter one hundred and seventy-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Repealed and re-enacted.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by act of Assembly, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter one hundred and seventy-five, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: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 valuation 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.