ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 821

tion during business hours at the office of the Town Clerk.
The said accountant shall receive such compensation for
his services, not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500. 00)
for each audit, as the Council may fix.

(F) The said Council shall have power by ordinance
to provide for the punishment of any person, persons or
corporations who shall violate any of the provisions of this
section by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars
($100. 00) in any one case, or imprisonment in the county
jail of the county in which said offense shall be committed
for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both.

(F) The town of Takoma Park is hereby authorized
and empowered to purchase any property offered for sale
for the payment of taxes, provided it shall not bid a sum
greater than the taxes in arrears upon said property and
the interest and expenses of sale and costs and fees. In
such case no certificate of sale shall be made, at any time
thereafter the town may, after approval of the Council,
receive from any person the amount of taxes, penalties and
costs to date together with all taxes, general or special,
which may have become due thereon after the date of the
sale, with interest at ten (10) per centum per annum; the
Treasurer shall give to such person a certificate similar to
the certificate given to a purchaser at the tax sale, which
shall entitle him to the same rights and privileges as if he
had purchased the property at the tax sale.

(J) Real property sold for taxes may be redeemed by
the owner, or by any person having interest in it, or lien
thereon, at any time within two years from the date of
sale, by paying to the Treasurer a fee of one dollar for a
certificate of redemption, together with the amount paid
by the tax purchaser at the sale with interest thereon
at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the
day of the sale, and the amount of all taxes, municipal,
State or county, general or special, or assessments, paid
by the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest at the
same rate from the date of such payment.

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

Approved April 21, 1933.