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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

therein specified; and the said treasurer shall

Report month-

be required to report monthly to the county

ly.

commissioners the amount collected by him, and on

the first day of July succeeding the date of the levy

for each current year, and not before, the said county

commissioners may draw on the said treasurer pro

rata to all who shall present such certificates within

...... days after each and every month for the amount

that may then appear to be in his hands to their

credit, and continue so to draw as they may find

funds in the hands of said treasurer to their credit

until they have discharged all the indebtedness due

and owing by Prince George's county for which the

How con-

said levy was made; it is hereby declared to be the

strued.

intention and meaning of this act that the county

commissioners shall, when requested, issue county

certificates of indebtedness to any person having a

levy on their books showing the amount due by

Prince George's county to them, which shall be

transferable and taken up by the said county com-

missioners by draft on the treasurer as hereinbefore

provided; the treasurer shall immediately, on re-

Proceed to

ceiving the assessment or rate of tax, proceed as

collect.

hereinafter provided for to collect the same; and

may at any time, after he has given the requisite

notices prescribed by this act, proceed to sell, as

hereinafter provided for, either real or personal prop-

erty of the person, body politic or corporate in whose

name it stands assessed, for the payment of the

same; and it shall be the duty of the county com-

missioners, at any time after county or State taxes

are due and in arrears, to authorize the county

Authorize
treasurer t o

treasurer by general order to sell the real or per-

sell.

sonal property of any person, body politic or

corporate, who may be then owing State or county

taxes due and in arrears us aforesaid; it shall not

be necessary in the order of the commissioners

to mention the name of the delinquent or the

property owned by him, her or them, only that the

county treasurer be hereby authorized to enforce

the payment of any State or county taxes due and

in arrears to Prince George's county, and the said

Order to be

order as passed by them shall be published four

published.

weeks in one of the county papers published in the

said county, which said order shall give the said

treasurer full authority, after the expiration of the