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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall be the duty of each person chargeable with taxes to
attend at the office of the Treasurer and pay the same some-
time between the first day of July and the first day of Novem-
ber, in each year.

18 (a.) On or before the last day of June in each year, the

Sale of prop-
erty f or taxes

council shall, by ordinance, levy the general taxes for the fiscal
'year next ensuing, which taxes shall not exceed seventy-five
cents on each hundred dollars of assessable property; such
taxes shall be due immediately on the levy thereof; and if the
taxes due from any person or corporation shall not be paid
before the first day of November following, there shall be
added on that day, a penalty of one per centum thereof, and
a like penalty of one per centum on the first day of each
succeeding month, until such taxes and penalties shall be paid,
(b.) On or before the third Monday in April of each year, but
not earlier than the first day of April, the treasurer shall offer
at public sale at some place within the town, to be designated
in his public notice of gale, all real property which is then
subject to a lien for delinquent taxes under the provisions of
this charter, whether for the year then current or for previous
years, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the
delinquent taxes due from the owners thereof, respectively,
with penalties and costs, including the proportional cost of
giving notice by advertisement or posted notices, as herein-

Notice of sale

after provided; provided,. however, that a tax sale may be
made in the present year at any time before the last Monday
in May. (c.) The notice of the sale shall state the time and
place of sale, the name or names of persons to whom each
piece of property is assessed, and the total amount of taxes,
penalties and costs due from such person, computed to the day
of the sale; subdivided property shall be designated by lot,
block and sub-division; property not sub-divided shall be
briefly described so as to indentify the land to be sold, (d.)
The notice shall be published once in each week for three suc-
cessive weeks in some newspaper published in the town, if
any such there be, and the last day of publication shall be
at least three days before the day of sale; if there be no
newspaper regularly published in the town as often as once
a week, or if the proposed charges for publication shall be
deemed excessive by the council, then the notice shall be
printed and posted up in at least five conspicuous places in the
town at three weeks before the day of sale, and no other
notice shall be required, (e.) The treasurer shall continue to
receive such taxes as are tendered with penalties and proper-