3812 ARTICLE 17.

the tax year 1929-1930. Said list shall set out respectively the name or
names of the owner or owners of the real estate so listed; a fair descrip-
tion of each piece of real estate sufficient to notify the owner or owners
thereof that it is his property which is advertised; the amount of the taxes
and/or assessments, interest, penalties and costs for which the same is
liable; and a reference to the subdivision in which said real estate is
situate. The amount of said taxes and/or assessments, interest, penalties
and costs may be indicated by the dollar sign and a period in the same
way dollars and cents are usually written in figures, as, for instance,
"$3.50." The said Treasurer shall publish said list in some newspaper
published in Prince George's County, Maryland, having a circulation in
the town of Cottage City once a week for three successive weeks prior to
the first Monday in April for each year real estate is advertised to be sold
for such taxes and assessments. Each piece of real estate so advertised for
sale shall bear a charge of one dollar to cover the costs of said advertise-
ment and of the order of publication hereinafter provided, and said amount
shall be included in the amount charged in said list against each piece of
property.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 5.

290. The said Treasurer, at the time fixed in the advertisement of tax
sale hereinabove referred to, shall attend at the door of the meeting place
of the Cottage City Commission in the town of Cottage City, Prince
George's County, Maryland, and offer for sale all real estate so advertised
to the highest bidder, commencing with the first piece of real estate listed
in said advertisement and continuing to conduct said sale until all of
said real estate so advertised shall have been offered for sale. Said sale
shall commence at ten o'clock A. M. on the first Monday in April of each
year and continue until three o'clock P. M., from day to day, Sundays
and legal holidays excepted, until all the real estate so advertised to be
sold shall have been offered for sale.

1929, Ch. 141, sec. 6.

291. No piece of real estate offered at tax sale by said Treasurer shall
be sold for less than the total of the taxes, interest, penalties and costs of
sale for which it is liable. If such a bid for the same be not made, it
shall be considered and recorded as sold to the Cottage City Commission
for the total amount thereof. In such case, it shall remain on the assess-
ment books of the Cottage City and be taxed as other property thereon,
but not resold at the succeeding annual tax and/or assessment sales. A
report of all sales made by the said Treasurer, and final ratification thereof,
shall be made and had as herein provided.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 7.

292. Any real estate sold under the provisions of this Act may be
redeemed within two years after the published date of the sale thereof
by the payment of the total amount of the taxes and assessments, interest,
penalties and costs for which the same was sold, interest at twelve per