|
620
|
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
|
|
|
|
be due and owing upon real property, or upon real
|
|
|
|
and personal property, the treasurer shall be author-
|
|
|
|
ized to levy upon either real or personal property to
|
|
|
|
enforce the payment of the same. Whenever real
|
|
|
|
estate is susceptible of division, so that a part thereof
|
|
|
|
will sell for enough to pay the taxes due and all costs,
|
|
|
When to divide
|
the treasurer may, in his discretion, employ a surveyor
|
|
|
|
to divide the same, and tax as part of the costs in such
|
|
|
|
proceeding such compensation for the services of such
|
|
|
|
surveyor as he may consider just, not exceeding the
|
|
|
|
sum of five dollars. Whenever any levy is made
|
|
|
|
notice thereof, together with a copy of the bill for
|
|
|
|
taxes due, interest and all costs, including that of the
|
|
|
|
levy, shall be delivered to the owner, if he be in pos-
|
|
|
|
session of the property, or at his residence, if it be
|
|
|
|
within the same district, or mailed to him, if his post-
|
|
|
|
office address be known, and if not, then be conspicu-
|
|
|
|
ously posted on the premises, together with a notice
|
|
|
|
that, if the said bill for taxes, interest and costs is not
|
|
|
|
paid within thirty days, the property levied upon will
|
|
|
|
be sold at public sale; and the said treasurer is
|
|
|
Expose for sale
|
hereby authorized to expose any property so levied on
|
|
|
|
at public sale upon expiration of the said thirty days,
|
|
|
|
either on the premises or at the court-house door in
|
|
|
|
Annapolis, and to sell the same to the highest bid-
|
|
|
|
der for cash, the said treasurer having first given
|
|
|
Notice.
|
twenty days' notice of the time and place of such sale,
|
|
|
|
by advertisement inserted in one newspaper published
|
|
|
|
in Annapolis, and by printed handbills, publicly
|
|
|
|
posted at said court-house door, and at least ten places
|
|
|
|
in the district where the property is located, one of
|
|
|
|
such notices to be placed upon the premises; personal
|
|
|
|
property may be sold upon ten days' notice by hand-
|
|
|
|
bills so posted in the district and at the court house ;
|
|
|
|
any advertised notice of a sale under the provisions of
|
|
|
Sufficient.
|
this act shall be deemed sufficient if it contains the
|
|
|
|
time, terms and place of such sale, the year or years
|
|
|
|
for which taxes are due, to whom the property is as-
|
|
|
|
sessed, the district where located, the quantity of land
|
|
|
|
(if land) offered for sale, if there be record evidence
|
|
|
|
thereof, and a reference to the liber and folio where
|
|
|
|
the deed for said property may be found, and the date
|
|
|
|
of the deed; in no case shall a description by metes
|
|
|
Not necessary.
|
and bounds be necessary, nor shall a greater sum than
|
|
|
|
four dollars be paid for any newspaper advertisement
|
|
|
|
thereof.
|
|