3946 ARTICLE 17.

in a well-bound book to be provided by the said Mayor and City Council -
turn over all moneys so received to the Treasurer at least once a month,
with a statement from whom it was received and what it represents; and
he shall also make monthly reports to the City Council at its regular meet-
ings. He shall receive as salary three hundred dollars per year, payable
in monthly installments of twenty-five dollars, and shall also receive a
commission of two per cent, on all taxes collected, including the collection
of water rent and electric light tax or charge. He shall be in his office
for the receipt of taxes and other funds from nine o'clock A. M. until four
o'clock P. M., which office shall be at such place as the Mayor and City;
Council shall designate or approve.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 243.

655. In all cases where the collector shall commence and carry on pro-
ceedings for the enforcement and collection of taxes, under the provision
of this charter, whether by notice, distraint, levy, advertisement, sale, re-
port of sale or otherwise, and the term of office of such collector shall expire
or cease by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, before such proceed-
ings are completed, and in case of sale, before the said sale has been fully
ratified and confirmed and a deed to the purchaser executed and delivered
as provided herein, the successor in office of the said collector whose term
of office shall thus cease or expire is hereby authorized, empowered and
required to continue and complete all said proceedings commenced and
carried on as aforesaid, during the term of office of his said predecessor,
in the same manner and with like effect as his said predecessor would have
been authorized and empowered to do, had his term of office not ceased
and expired as aforesaid; and the successor in office of such collector whose
term of office shall thus cease or expire, shall have full power and authority
to report any and all sales made by his said predecessor in office, to execute
and deliver any and all deeds to property sold or reported by his said prede-
cessor, and generally to do any and all acts and things necessary or proper
to be done in order to continue and finally complete the enforcement and
collection of taxes, and the sale and conveyance of property theretofore
commenced and carried on by his said predecessor in office.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 244.

656. When any real or leasehold property in the town of Laurel shall
be sold by reason of non-payment of any taxes or assessments due thereon,
the owner or other persons having an estate or interest therein shall have
power to redeem the same .at any time within one year and a day frorn
the day of sale, on paying to the collector the whole amount of money
received by such collector from the sale of said property which it is de-
sired to redeem from said sale, and a further sum of one per cent, per
month, interest from the time of sale to the time of such payment and
redemption; and the sums so paid shall be by the collector delivered or
tendered to the purchaser whose right in the property so purchased shall
thenceforth cease and determine.