3838 ARTICLE 17.

newspapers shall be published in the town of Upper Marlboro, one thereof
in the town of Hyattsville, and one thereof in the town of Laurel; pro-
vided, that such a newspaper exist and shall have been established in its
respective town at least two years preceding the date of the first publica-
tion of said advertisement; and the costs of such advertisement in and for
each newspaper shall not exceed the sum of fifty cents for a tax sale, which
sum of money shall be charged against the property offered for sale as
items of cost. To said list shall be appended a notice that if such tax or
taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale be not paid before the first Tues-
day of September next following, the said County Treasurer will, on said
day, at ten o'clock A. M., at the Court House door, in the town of Upper
Marlboro, in said county, proceed to offer each of the said pieces of real
estate for sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, to satisfy
said taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale, for which the same is liable;
beginning with the first parcel on said list and continuing on in the order
of said list from day to day, from ten o'clock A. M. until three o'clock
P. M., Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until all shall have been of-
fered for sale, and on said day of sale the said County Treasurer shall pro-
ceed to make said sale in conformity with said published notice. At said
sale, and thereafter, all proceedings in the matter of the sales made as
required by this section, shall be in conformity with those provided for
the annual tax sales made on the first Monday of March in each year,
except that the report of sale shall be made on or before the fifteenth day
of October next following said sale, exceptions to such sales shall be filed
on or before the first Monday of December next following said sale, and
the period of redemption shall be one year from the said first day of sale,
to wit, the said first Tuesday of September, at the end of which period
of redemption the respective pieces of land sold at the sale in this section
provided for, which then remain unredeemed shall be forfeited to, and be
vested in, the respective purchaser or purchasers thereof, by an absolute
and paramount title, and the Treasurer of Prince George's County shall
execute and deliver a good and valid deed, in fee simple, clear of all liens,
for said respective pieces of land to the respective purchaser or purchasers
thereof, except to the said County Commissioners of Prince George's Coun-
ty, to whom no such deed need be made; and the County Commissioners
of Prince George's County may thereafter sell the said lands forfeited and
vested in them as aforesaid, or any of them, at public or private sale, for
such price as they may think right; and the said Treasurer, for the time
being, upon the written order of the said County Commissioners and the
receipt of the purchase money for the same, shall execute and deliver to
the purchaser or purchasers of the said property or properties a good and
valid deed in fee simple, and clear of all liens, for the same. All provi-
sions of this article relating to tax sales, and the powers and duties of 'the
County Commissioners of Prince George's County, and of the Treasurer
of Prince George's County, in relation thereto, so far as they, or any of
them, may be applicable to the tax sales required by this section, are hereby
made applicable thereto; and all deeds of the Treasurer of Prince George's