ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1077

taxes, interest, costs and fees shall not have been paid, and
to continue said sale each day (legal holidays excepted),
from 10 o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M.. until every
such parcel of land, premises and personal property or more
than a sufficient quantity to pay all taxes, costs and ex-
penses for each case shall have been offered for sale. In
case for any piece of property there shall not be a suffi-
cient bid to cover the taxes, interests, costs and expenses,
the same shall be bid in by the County Commissioners, the
same to be reported, as in other cases, as land sold for
taxes, and at the expiration of the time limited for redemp-
tion, shall pass to the county, to become absolutely the
property of the county, subject to be sold thereafter by
the County Commissioners at public sale in substantially
like manner as property is sold under the Public General
Laws of this State by mortgagee or attorney for mort-
gagee, under the power of sale inserted therein. The
County Treasurer shall not be allowed any expendi-
tures for attorney's fees, but it shall be the duty of
the attorney to the County Commissioners to advise him
and act as attorney for him in all of his official work re-
quiring the advice or services of an attorney for him as
treasurer, and no compensation shall be charged, allowed or
paid to any paper other than is designated by the County
Commissioners as hereinbefore set forth; provided, how-
ever, that all advertising to be done under this Act shall
be inserted in two newspapers printed in Charles County,
bona fide representing the two political parties which at
last election preceding the insertion thereof polled respec-
tively the largest number of votes cast in said county, and
provided further, that in case of controversy as to what
newspaper in good faith represents either of the leading
political parties that paper shall be named which may be
designated by the central committee representing the party
in which such controversy may arise. The said treasurer
shall immediately after the making of the levy, in each
year after the passage of this Act, publish for two suc-
cessive weeks in said two newspapers a short notice in-
forming the public generally, that if taxes are paid on or
before the first day of September next succeeding the date
of such notice there will be allowed a deduction of three
per centum from the amount of said taxes; and, that on all
taxes not paid on or before the 1st day of September in
each year, interest at the rate of six per centum per an-
num will be charged. And the said treasurer shall im-
mediately after the first day of January in each year, give
a second notice, published as aforesaid, notifying the public