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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 243.

AN ACT to confer additional power upon the

County Commissioners of Garrett county, by add-

ing the following section to chapter two hundred

and twelve, passed at January session eighteen

hundred and seventy-two.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That whenever it shall become necessary

County com-

to sell any land in Garrett county, for and because

missioners au-
thorized to

of the non-payment of county taxes due and unpaid

purchase.

on said land assessed and due thereon by the laws

of this State, it shall and may be lawful for the county

commissioners of said county, and they are hereby

authorized to purchase said lands or such part thereof

as may be necessary, to the amount of said taxes, and

to hold and lease the same for such a length of time

as may be necessary to discharge the said taxes, in-

terest and costs, and if the sum realized from said

lease shall not in three years pay and discharge said

taxes, interest and costs, or if the owner or owners

of said land shall not in three years pay and discharge

said taxes, interest and cost, the said commissioners

Authorized to
sell.

are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and

convey said lands, by a good and sufficient deed,

which shall pass a good title to the property so sold,

as against the person or persons owning said lands,

upon the ratification of said sale by the Circuit Court

for Garrett county, the said commissioners first giv-

Give notice.

ing the notice and making the sale according to the

law directing a sale of land under a writ of fieri facias

by a sheriff.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

I n force.

effect from the date of its approval by the Governor.

Approved April 7, 1876.