446 LAWS OF MARYLAND. (Ch. 226]

same shall have been duly accounted for and paid over accord-
ing to law. He shall be the collector of all State and county
taxes that may be levied by the County Commissioners for
St. Mary's County, or otherwise, and shall have power and
authority to receive and collect said taxes and to enforce the
payment thereof, and to convey title to any real or personal
estate sold by him for the payment thereof; and when there
be no bidders for property offered for sale by said treasurer,
it shall be lawful for the County Commissioners of said county
to purchase said real estate and to convey the same when sold
by them by good and sufficient deed. The said treasurer shall
receive county certificates from taxpayers to the amount of the
taxes due by them respectively. Provided the said certificates
are payable out of the levy of the current year; and he shall
reserve out of the money collected bv him a sufficient sum
to pay the amount levied in each current year for public schools,
and shall pay the same over to the Board of County School
Commissioners, one-fourth each on or before the first day of
November, February, April and July. The said treasurer
shall be entitled to the following fees: For giving the notice to
enforce the payment of taxes, the sum of fifty cents for each
notice given, as hereinbefore provided, and in addition thereto
for property sold he shall receive a poundage fee of three per
cent, on the gross amount of sales; but, if the amount of bill
be paid prior to sale, after the same shall have been advertised,
he shall only receive as poundage fee one per cent, on the
amount collected; those several fees to be charged as a part of
the tax bill of the delinquent taxpayer.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 226.

AN ACT to incorporate the Empire Coal Company, of Garrett
county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Emory S. West and Henry M. Speicher, of Garrett
county; James P. Gaffney, Andrew Eamsay and Hewitt Rey-
nolds, of Allegany county, and all of whom are citizens of the
State of Maryland," and the subscribers to the stock of the
corporation hereby created, and their successors and assigns, be
and they are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of
The Empire Coal Company, and by that name shall have per-