PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1129

the City Council at its regular meetings. He shall receive as
salary three hundred dollars per year, payable in monthly
installments of twenty-five dollars, and shall also receive a com-
mission of two per cent, on all taxes collected, including the
collection of water rent and electric light tax or charge. He
shall be in his office for the receipt of taxes and other funds
from nine o'clock A. M. until four o'clock P. M., which office
shall be at such place as the Mayor and City Council shall
designate or approve.

SEC. 243. In all cases where the collector shall commence
and carry on proceedings for the enforcement and collection of
taxes, under the provision of this charter, whether by notice,
distraint, levy, advertisement, sale, report of sale or otherwise,
and the term of office" of such collector shall expire or cease by
death, resignation, removal or otherwise, before such proceed-
ings are completed, and in case of sale, before the said sale
has been fully ratified and confirmed and a deed to the pur-
chaser executed and delivered as provided herein, the successor
in office of the said collector whose term of office shall thus
cease or expire is hereby authorized, empowered and required
to continue and complete all said proceedings commenced and
carried on as aforesaid, during the term of office of his said
predecessor, in the same manner and with like effect as his said
predecessor would have .been authorized and empowered to do,
had his term of office not ceased and expired as aforesaid; and
the successor in office of such collector whose term of office shall
thus cease or expire, shall have full power and authority to
report any and all sales made by his said predecessor in office,
to execute and deliver any and all deeds to property sold or
reported by his said predecessor, and generally to do any and
all acts and things necessary or proper to be done in order to
continue and finally complete the enforcement and collection
of taxes, and the sale and conveyance of property theretofore
commenced and carried on by his said predecessor in office.

SEC. 244. When any real or leasehold property in the town
of Laurel shall be sold by reason of non-payment of any taxes
or assessments due thereon, the owner or other persons having
an estate or interest therein shall have power to redeem the
same at any time within one year and a day from the day of
sale, on paying to the collector the whole amount of money
received by such collector from the sale of said property which
it is desired to redeem from said sale, and a further sum of one
per cent., per month, interest from the time of sale to the time
of such payment and redemption; and the sums so paid shall