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	CHAPTER 230.
	AN ACT to provide for the more efficient collection
	of taxes in Baltimore city, and to amend article
	four of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City
	of Baltimore," by adding additional sections there-
	to for that purpose.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That additional sections be and
	same are hereby added to article four of the Code	Additional
	of Public Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore,"	sections add-
	sub-title " Taxes and Loans," said sections to be des-	ed.
	ignated and numbered, and to read as follows, that
	is to say:
	SECTION 878 A. Whenever any collector of taxes
	in Baltimore city shall have distrained or levied	Distrain for
	upon any goods or chattels in said city for non-pay-	taxes.
	ment of any taxes, State or municipal, due by the
	owner thereof, before making sale of the property
	so distrained or levied upon, said collector shall give
	notice by advertisement published twice a week, for
	one week, prior to the day of sale, and also on the
	day of sale, in three of the daily newspapers pub-
	lished in said city, one of which shall be in the Ger-
	man language, that he will sell for cash, at public auction, to the highest bidder, on the day and at the	Publish sale.
	time and place mentioned in said advertisement, the
	property therein specified, unless on or before the
	day of sale the entire amount of taxes, for which
	such distraint or levy shall have been made, with
	the interest thereon, and costs of making said levy
	and advertisement, shall be paid.
	SEC. 8T8 B. Every collector who shall sell any
	goods or chattels levied or distrained upon for taxes,
	State or municipal, in Baltimore city, after due ad-
	vertisement, as required in the preceding section,	What to re-
	shall retain out of the proceeds of sale the amount	tain
	of taxes due from the delinquent, for which such levy
	or distraint shall have been made, with the interest
	thereon, and all costs incurred in making said sale,
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