1124 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

P. L. L, (1880) art. 11, sec. 66.

122. If the owner or tenant of any house or lot, or part of a
lot, or the person having the care of the same, shall refuse or
neglect to have such work done in obedience to the ordinances of
the corporation, the burgess and commissioners may contract, on
reasonable terms, for such work, and recover the expense thereof,

with costs, by distress on the property.

Ibid. sec. 67.

123. A constable may be appointed for said town, in such
manner and with such compensation as may be directed by ordi-
nance, who, within the limits of the corporation, except in cases of
civil process, shall have all the powers of a constable; and, in
like manner, a collector of taxes imposed by the corporation, who-
shall have power to collect the same by distress upon either real
or personal property.

Ibid. sec. 68.

124. The said collector, before making any distress for taxes,,
shall leave with the party by whom the taxes are to be paid, or at
his usual place of abode, or on the property, if the party does not
reside in the town, a statement showing the aggregate amount of
taxes due thereon, with a notice annexed to said statement, that
unless the taxes so due are paid within thirty days thereafter, the
collector will proceed by way of distress or execution to collect
the same.

Ibid. sec. 69.

125. If, after giving thirty days' notice as directed in the pre-
ceding section, the said taxes are not paid, the collector shall levy
upon either the real or personal property of the delinquent, and
sell the same at public sale, either on the premises or at some
public place in said town, having first given at least ten days'
notice, in writing or print, of the time and place of such sale in a.
number of the most public places in said town.

Ibid. sec. 70.

126. The collector shall sell so much of said property as may
be necessary to pay the amount of taxes due from such delinquent,

with the interest thereon, together with the costs incurred by said