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treasurer, by reason of illness or other disability, be unable to attend and
conduct such sale or sales in person, a deputy shall conduct such sale or
sales, and in such case the deputy shall make the affidavit to the report of
sales as now provided for by law. That the real estate of a delinquent
taxpayer may be sold to pay State and county taxes whether there be
personal property or not; whenever it shall be unnecessary for the treas-
urer to sell the entire real property with which a delinquent taxpayer is
assessed, he shall estimate the quantity thereof which, in his judgment,
will be sufficient to pay the taxes in arrears, interest, costs and expenses
above set forth, and shall require a competent surveyor to lay off and
make a plat and description of the same, and the part so laid off shall be
sold by the plat and description so made and it shall be sufficient in the
advertisement of the list of delinquent taxpayers to designate the quantity
of land to be sold from the property described, as per plat and description
to be exhibited at the time of sale, and in case of sale the treasurer shall
file said plat and description with his report of sale.
Findlay v. Darnall, 143 Md. 291.

1896, ch. 317, sec. 9.

100. All orders for the payment of money by the County Commis-
sioners, when such orders become necessary, shall be directed to the
Treasurer of Howard county, and shall be honored and paid by him so
far as the funds in his hands for the purpose therefor drawn will permit.

1896, ch. 317, sec. 10. 1900, ch. 455, sec. 10.

101. At the general election for delegates to the General Assembly
of Maryland, in the year nineteen hundred and one and every second year
thereafter, there shall be elected se county treasurer for Howard County
by the legal qualified voters of said county, who shall hold office for two
years from June the first of the year following his election and until his
successor is elected and qualified, as hereinbefore provided, and be subject
at all times to removal by the Governor for wilful neglect of duty or
misdemeanor in office, upon conviction in a court of law; and the said
treasurer so elected shall in all respects be clothed with the powers herein
given, and be governed by all the provisions of this Act, provided expressly
that nothing herein contained shall affect the tenure of office of the
recently elected treasurer for Howard County, James T. Clark, who shall
continue in office till June 1st, 1902, and until his successor is elected
and qualified, as herein provided.*

1896, ch. 317, sec. 11.

102. The provisions of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
now in force or hereafter enacted, applicable to collectors of State and
county taxes, except when the same are repealed by, or are inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, shall be held to apply to the treasurer of

*Under Art. 17 of Md. Constitution all county elective officials are elected every
lour years.