1614 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

1878, ch. 468.

225. Upon receiving an order from the commissioners to
enforce the payment of unpaid taxes, he shall leave with the
party by whom the taxes are to be paid, or at his usual place of
abode, or on the premises, if the party does not reside in town, a
statement showing the amount of taxes due thereon, with a notice
thereto annexed, that unless the taxes are paid within thirty days
thereafter, he will proceed by way of distress or levy, to collect
the same.

Ibid.

226. If, after giving the thirty days' notice, as directed in the
preceding section, the said taxes shall not be paid, the treasurer
shall levy upon either the real or personal property of the delin-
quent, and sell the same at public sale, either on the premises or
at some public place in said town, having first given twenty days'
notice in writing or print, of the time and place of said sale, said
notice to be posted in not less than three public places in said
town. The treasurer shall sell so much of said property as may
be necessary to pay the amount of taxes due from such delin-
quent, with the costs incurred by said treasurer, and shall, if it be
real estate, convey the same to the purchaser upon payment of
the purchase money, and shall pay any amount over and above
the taxes and costs, for which the property may sell, to the party
for whose taxes the property is sold; and the said treasurer shall
be entitled as his cost to fifty cents on each and every levy so
made, and the poundage fees allowed to sheriffs on executions.

Ibid.

227. He shall be allowed the term of one year after the ex-
piration of the time for which he was elected, to collect and render
his accounts of all balances due him, in the same manner as he
could collect the same before the expiration of his term of office;
and if any treasurer shall fail to account and pay over the money
he has collected, or ought to have collected, within the time re-
quired by law, his bond may be put in suit, and he shall be
chargeable with interest from the time the money ought to have
been paid.