HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 9

or before the first day of June next after the date of said bill,
the property upon which said 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 so
in default and the interest thereon, the additional sum of
twenty-five cents for the payment of the costs of the service of
such bill of taxes; the bills so made out shall be placed in the
hands of the said constables on or before the first Monday of
April after the date thereof, by whom 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 the failure to
find such person or taxpayer in the district such tax bill shall
be left with the agent of such taxpayer or conspicuously
posted on the property assessed, within thirty days after the
receipt of the same, and the constables receiving such tax bills
shall endorse upon one copy thereof the time and manner of
service made, which endorsement shall be prima facie evidence
of the correctness thereof, and shall return the same to treas-
urer within twenty days after making such service, and the
said constables shall receive a fee of twenty cents for each
notice served by them, payable by the treasurer out of the ad-
ditional charge of twenty-five cents aforesaid and the remain-
ing five cents thereof when collected shall be retained by the
treasurer for costs of making out the tax bills; the constable
shall have no authority to collect said tax bill or any portion
thereof, and any constable who shall do so or who shall make
any false return under the provisions of this section, or refuse
or neglect to perform his duty as herein provided shall be
liable to indictment therefor, and upon conviction shall pay
a fine of fifty dollars, said fine to be collected as other fines
and be paid to the treasurer for county purposes; and it shall
be the duty of the treasurer to enforce the payment of all taxes
remaining unpaid on the first day of June in each year succeed-
ing that in which the same shall have been levied, by a levy
upon and sale of the real or personal property of the person or
body corporate so neglecting to pay, provided the notice shall
have been given by the constables as herein provided; and the
said treasurer shall pay over according to law or to the order
of the County Commissioners, in the manner hereinbefore pre-
scribed, all county taxes and all moneys due said county and
collected by him; and he shall also pay over to the Treasurer
of the State of Maryland according to law, all the State taxes
levied in said county and collected by him, and he shall be al-
lowed until the thirty-first day of December of the year next
succeeding the levy to complete the collection thereof, and to
make his final settlement with the said County Commissioners
and with the Treasurer of Maryland, respectively; and he shall
have until said time to complete his collections and make his