284 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 168

109. Whenever it becomes necessary for said Treasurer
to enforce the payment of taxes by a sale of realty, he shall
advertise such real estate or so much thereof as may be
necessary, once a week for three successive weeks in one
newspaper published in Garrett County, and by hand bills
posted at the court house door, and at least five places in
the district where the land is located, any advertised notice
of a sale under the provisions of this sub-title of this article,
shall be deemed sufficient if it contains the time, terms and
place of such sale, the year or years for which the taxes
are due and the amount of same, to whom the property is
assessed, the district where located, the quantity of land
offered for sale, the name or number of the tract or lot of
land, if it bear a name or number, and is so assessed, and
the street number if located in a town or city; and
in no case shall a description by metes and bounds
courses and distances be required, unless it shall be
necessary for the identification and location of such
part or parts of real estate as may be sold under a sub-
division thereof as provided in the next preceding sec-
tion; no levy upon land shall be required where the same
is sold by the treasurer by virtue of the provisions of this
sub-title of this Article, and no notice or notices other than
those provided for in this section shall be necessary
or required to make valid any sale authorized to be made.
No fee for the examination of the title of land to be sold
or sold for taxes shall be allowed as part of the costs of said
sale or shall be paid by the County Treasurer or County
Commissioners. In order to reduce the expense of adver-
tising the said Treasurer shall include the notices of tax
sales in one advertisement whenever he shall be proceeding
with the sale of more than one lot or parcel of land or with
the sale of land assessed to more than one delinquent. The
advertisement when prepared by the County Treasurer
shall be submitted to all newspapers published in Garrett
County in order to obtain bids for the publishing of the
same and said publication shall be awarded to the paper
making the lowest bid. The costs of publishing such ad-
vertisement, as herein required, shall be equally distributed
among the several tracts or lots of land herein named, and
the amount thereby apportioned to each tract of land shall
be added to the sum for which such tract or lot is sold, and
the same shall be paid from the proceeds thereof by the
County Treasurer, except that, when any tract or lot sold
at such sale is purchased by the County Commissioners the
sum due for such publication shall be paid out of the gen-
eral county funds.