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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of them, and are still due and unpaid, then it shall be

To aescee.

the duty of the said county commissioners and Appeal

Tax Court, respectively to assess the said shares of

stock so omitted, or on which the said State taxes are

still due and unpaid, at their true value, for the year

or years respectively for which they may have been

To levy the

so omitted, or for which the State taxes may be due

State taxes.

and unpaid as aforesaid, and to levy the State taxes

due in said years respectively on said shares, and to

charge said stockholders respectively with the State

taxes so due and unpaid on their said shares as afore-

said, and to place the accounts of State taxes so due

from and charged to said stockholders respectively,

in the hands of the collector of State taxes for said

county and city respectively, and it shall be the duty

of the said collectors respectively to proceed at once

to collect said State taxes and pay the same into the

Treasury of the State.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if said State taxes

shall not be paid by said stockholders within ten

days after the said accounts shall have been deliv-

Dnty of said

ered to said collectors, it shall be the duty of the

collectors.

said collectors, respectively, to give notice to the

said stockholders, by advertisement in some news-

paper published in the county or city where said

taxes are due and unpaid as aforesaid, of the amount

of said taxes due from each stockholder as aforesaid,

for each year for which the same may be due and

unpaid as aforesaid, which advertisement shall be

published once a week for three successive weeks,

warning said stockholders, respectively, to pay

the said taxes so due as aforesaid, to said collec-

tor, on or before some day to be fixed by said collec-

tor, not less than ten days after the last publication

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of said notice as aforesaid, and giving notice that if

said taxes are not so paid, he will proceed to sell the

said shares of stock so held by said stockholders, re-

spectively, in said bank, for cash, to satisfy said taxes,

and the costs and expenses attending the sale there-

of, including the cost of said advertisement, at the

hour of two o'clock P. M. on said day ; and that said

sale will take plaee at the court-house door of the

county, or at the Exchange Salesroom if in the City

of Baltimore ; and if said taxes are not paid by the

said hour of sale, the said collector shall proceed to