ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 605

title "Revenue and Taxes, " providing for the payment
of taxes in two equal installments in said County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 254 of Article 24 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Worcester County, " sub-title "Revenue and Taxes, " be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
to read as follows:

254. On the first day of January next succeeding each
levy, taxes shall be deemed to be in arrears and interest
shall be charged and collected on all taxes not then paid
from the first day of January, the date when said taxes
become due and in arrears, and within twenty days after
the first day of January the Treasurer shall deliver or mail
to the last known postoffice address of each delinquent tax-
payer an account of his assessment and the taxes and
interest due thereon with a notice of said delinquent thereto
attached, that unless payment be made in full on or before
the first day of July next after the delivery of said notice
that the same will be collected by process of law; provided,
however, that on or before the first day of April next suc-
ceeding the date of the levy the said Treasurer shall accept
one-half of the taxes due by each of said taxpayers and of
the interest due thereon; and it shall be the duty of the
Treasurer to enforce the payment of all taxes remaining
unpaid on the said first day of July next after the delivery
of said notice in the manner hereinafter prescribed by a
sale of either real or personal property.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 327.

AN ACT to amend the charter of Hampstead by repealing
Sections 65, 66, 75, 84 and 85 of Article 7 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Carroll County, " sub-title
"Hampstead, " and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments and to be known as Sections 65, 66, 75, 84 and 85
and to enact an additional section, relating to codification