3656 ARTICLE 16.

places in the town, at least three weeks before the day of the sale, and no
other notice shall be required.

(D) The Treasurer shall continue to receive such taxes as are tendered,
with penalties and proportioned cost of giving notice, up to the time at
which the property chargeable therewith is offered for sale.

(E) On the day of sale the Treasurer shall, at the time and place desig-
nated in his notice, offer for sale by public auction to the highest bidder,
so much of the real estate advertised or posted in the name of each delin-
quent taxpayer, as shall be necessary to pay the taxes, penalties and costs
due from said delinquent taxpayers, and shall continue the sale from day
to day until the taxes are paid or until each piece of property has been
sold. Where the real estate advertised or posted as aforesaid shall con-
sist of more than one parcel assessed to any one delinquent, such parcels,
where it is practicable to do so, shall be offered singly until enough has
been realized to pay the whole of the tax bill, interest, costs and charges
as in this charter provided, and the remainder of such parcels shall not
be offered. In case, however, said real estate shall consist of but one
town lot, whether improved or not, it shall be offered as a whole. If such
property consists of a tract of land not subdivided into town lots, then only
such portion thereof, to be determined before the sale and described in
the advertisement, as in the judgment of the Treasurer, shall be sufficient
to pay the amount properly chargeable against the delinquent owner, shall
be sold.

(F) The town of Takoma Park is hereby authorized and empowered
to purchase any property offered for sale for the payment of taxes, pro-
vided it shall not bid a sum greater than the taxes in arrears upon said
property and the interest and expenses of sale and costs and fees. In
such case no certificate of sale shall be made, but if at any time thereafter
any person shall pay to the town the amount of taxes, penalties and costs
to date, together with all taxes, general or special, which may have become
due thereon after the date of the sale, with interest at fifteen (15) per

centum per annum, the Treasurer shall give to such person a certificate
similar to the certificate given to a purchaser at the tax sale, which shall
entitle him to the same rights and privileges as if he had purchased the
property at the tax sale.

(G) The said Treasurer shall, within thirty (30) days after the close
of the sales made and herein provided for make a full report to the
Circuit Courts of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, of the sale
made by him of the property located in each respective county setting forth
his proceedings in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at
what price such several parcels were severally sold, the amount of tax, the
interest accrued, proportional cost of advertising such sales, and the cost
and expenses of making and reporting said sales, including a reasonable

counsel fee, and of the surplus fund in each instance; with such report
he shall also file a copy of the printed and posted, list aforesaid. The said
courts shall examine the said proceedings and if the same appear to be
regular and the provisions of law in relation thereto have been substan-