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the owner if he be in possession of the property, or be con-
spicuously posted on the premises, together with a notice
that if the said bill for taxes, interest and costs be not
paid within thirty days, the property levied upon will be
sold at public sale, and the said treasurer is authorized to
expose any property so levied upon at public sale at the
expiration of thirty days, after having first given twenty
days' notice of the time and place of sale by advertisement
in one newspaper published at Towson, and by printed
handbills publicly posted on the courthouse door, and at
least ten places m the district where the property is located,
one of such notices to be placed upon the premises. Per-
sonal property may be sold upon ten days' notice by hand-
bills so posted in the district and at the courthouse door.
Any advertised notice of sale under the provisions of this
section shall be deemed sufficient if it contains the hour and
place, the year or years for which taxes are due, to whom
assessed, the district where located, the naming of im-
provements thereon, if any, and in addition thereto, a fur-
ther description as outlined in any one of the three follow-
ing sub-sections, to wit:

(a) The quantity of land, if there by record evidence
thereof, and a reference to the book or folio where the deed
for said property may be found, and the date of the
deed, or;

(b) A description by metes and bounds, or;

(e) Designation by Lot Number, and Block or Section
(if any) and name of development or subdivision, as shown
on any plat recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore County.

In no case shall a description by metes and bounds be
necessary, nor shall a greater sum than four dollars be paid
for any newspaper advertisement thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on and after the first day of June; 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 197.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
391A and 391C of Offutt's Revised Code of the Public
Local Laws of Baltimore County, Edition of 1929, title