160 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

the month of March succeeding each levy, to make out all tar
bills which have not been paid, in duplicate form, and to place
the same in the hands of the several constables of the districts
wherein the property assessed is located or the owners reside, to
be delivered to the parties, owing the same; and each bill so
made out shall contain a notice that if the same be not paid on
or before the first day of June next after the date of said bill,
the property upon which such taxes may be owing will be levied
upon and sold to enforce payment thereof; and there shall be
added to the principal sum of such State and county taxes, and
interest thereon, the additional sum of twenty-five cents for
payment of the costs of the service of such bill for taxes. The
bills so made out shall be placed in the hands of the said con-
stables on or before the first Monday in April after the date-
thereof, and one copy of each such bill shall be delivered to the
person or corporate institution against whom it is made out; or,
in the event of failure to find such person or taxpayer in the
district, such tax bill shall be left with the agent of such person
or institution, or conspicuously posted on the property assessed,
within thirty days after the receipt of the same; and the con-
stable receiving such tax bills shall endorse upon one copy thereof
the time and manner of service made, and shall return the same
to the treasurer within twenty days after making such service.
The said constables shall be paid a fee of twenty cents for each.
tax bill and notice served by them, respectively, payable by the
treasurer out of the additional charge of twenty-five cents afore-
said, and the remaining five cents thereof, when collected, shall
be retained by the treasurer for costs of making out the tax bills;
the constables shall have no authority to collect such bills, nor
any part thereof; and any constable who shall do so, or who will
make any false return under the provisions of this section, shall
be liable to indictment therefor, and upon conviction he shall pay
a fine of fifty dollars, one-half thereof to go to the informer, and
the other half to the county school fund, for each such offence.

1884, ch. 462.

230. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to enforce the pay-
ment of all taxes remaining unpaid on the first day of June in
the year succeeding that in which the same shall have been