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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.