JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety, they are authorized to
receive ; and the said Mayor and City. Council are hereby
authorized and empowered to incorporate into the bonds,
issued under authority of this Act, as a part of the contract
between the corporation of Havre de Grace, and the purchaser
of said bonds as security for the payment of the principal and
interest thereof as the same shall mature, a pledge of the
money authorized to be paid to them under section one
hundred and ninety-two of chapter one hundred and eighty
of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety, and the purchasers
and holders of said bonds shall have the right to rely and
insist upon said security pledged to them until the said bonds
are fully paid.

155. It shall be the duty of the city treasurer, as soon as

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the annual levy of taxes is made and placed in his hands, to
give notice- thereof in the several newspapers published in
said city, stating the time after which no discount will be
allowed on taxes, the time from which taxes bear interest, and
warning all taxpayers of their liability to be published as
delinquent taxpayers, and to have their property sold unless
the taxes with which they are charged are paid on or before
the first day of January next ensuing. He shall also immedi-
ately after the receipt of the levy as aforesaid make out the
bill of each taxpayer, to which a similar notice shall be
annexed, and upon application shall forward the bill by mail,
or otherwise, to the person or his agent to whom taxes have
been assessed.

155 A. Immediately after the first day of January in each

Notice to be
given of levy
of taxes.

year the city treasurer shall make up a list of all delinquent
taxpayers and the amount for which they are respectively in
arrears, and if the said taxes are not paid on or before the,
first day of February next ensuing, he shall immediately there-
after cause the same to be published once a week for two
successive weeks in two newspapers, if so many be published
in said city, and charge a proportionate part of the cost of said
publication to each of said delinquents ; should any of the said
taxes so in arrear continue unpaid beyond the twentieth day
of February after such advertisement, the city treasurer shall
make up a further list of all taxes due and in arrear, which
list shall contain the names of the person or persons assessed,
with a description of the property upon which taxes are due
and in arrear, and the amount of tax levied and in arrear
thereon with the interest and costs and expenses accrued and
to accrue thereon to the day of sale, to which list shall be
appended a notice that if the said taxes are not paid on or
before the second Monday in April next ensuing, together

List of
delinquent
taxpayers to
be made out.