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Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
for said property, together with all subsequent taxes or pub-
lic liens charged against said property and interest on said
total sum at the rate of six per cent per annum accounting
from the date on which the purchase money was paid by said
County Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to said collector, or in the alternative to such a
private sale to the former owner or other parties in interest
as above defined, shall after giving public notice by adver-
tisement inserted once for three successive weeks in two news-
papers published in said City, offer the said real estate for
sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, pro-
vided no public sale shall be for a less sum than the amount
of the taxes, together with all costs, charges and interest
due and chargeable thereon; and if for any real estate offered
at public sale there shall be no bid which seems adequate
to the County Commissioners or the Comptroller of Balti-
more City, the same shall be withdrawn from sale and there-
after, at any time without any further notice, the County
Commissioners, or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
acting through its Comptroller with the consent of the Board
of Finance Commissioners, may in their discretion sell the
same at public or private sale for the highest amount they
can obtain therefor. In the event of a sale, either public or
private, a deed of conveyance shall be executed by the County
Commissioners or in Baltimore City by the Board of Finance
Commissioners, to the purchaser upon receiving the full
amount of the purchase price; thereupon the County Com-
missioners or the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore shall
pay over to the Collector the amount of taxes, together with
all interest and charges due and chargeable on said property,
and any balance that may be left after paying the costs and
expenses incurred in the purchase and sale of said property,
shall pass into the general treasury of the County or City for
the general uses thereof.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 249.

An ACT to add a new Section to Article 41 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Governor-Execu-
tive and Administrative Departments", sub-title "Secretary
of State", said new Section to be known as Section 41-A and
to follow immediately after Section 41 of said Article, pro-
viding for the filing of all Executive Orders, rules or regula-