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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 346.

Where office
shall
be located.

25 A. The said Treasurer shall keep his office in Leonard-
town open from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock
in the afternoon every working day, and for the purpose of
receiving and disbursing taxes as directed by law, and shall
also attend in person or by deputy in some point in each
election district of said county one day each in the months of
February, June, August and October of each year, and of
each sitting he shall give notice by advertising in two news-
papers published in said county and by hand bills posted up
in three public places in each of such election districts, stating
when and the place where he will be in each of said districts
for collecting and receiving said taxes; for all taxes after the
first day of September succeeding the date of their levy, due
and unpaid, there shall be interest charged at the rate of six
per cent, per annum; and to enforce the collection of taxes, it
shall only be necessary for him to notify generally delinquents
by advertisement in one or more newspapers published in St.
Mary's county, and by hand bills posted in three or more
public places in each election district of said county, that
their taxes are due and in arrears, and that unless they
are paid, with all interest and costs within twenty days
from the date of such notice, their property will be sold
as provided for by law, without any levy or appraise-
ment, and after giving at least thirty days' notice of the
time, terms and place of sale, which place shall be at
the Court House door in Leonardtown, for real estate, and on
the premises of delinquents for personalty, by advertisement
in the St. Mary's Beacon and the St. Mary's Enterprise, being

Property to
be sold
for taxes In
arrears.

two newspapers published in said county; he shall proceed to
sell at the advertised sale mentioned, by public auction, the
property for cash to the highest bidder, retaining out of the
proceeds of such sale the amount of the taxes due from such
delinquent, with interest thereon, together with the costs
incurred in making such sale and the advertisement thereof,
which advertisement shall not exceed two dollars, or one
dollar to each of the two papers advertising the same, and he
shall pay the surplus, if any, to the owner of the property so
sold; provided, however, that the notice herein provided for
shall not be made before the first day of January following
the year of the levy, and that the said advertisement of sale
shall not be made before the first day of February in said year
following the year of the levy, but the said Treasurer may, in
his discretion, extend the time for such advertisement and sale
until the first of August next ensuing, when all delinquents
shall be advertised, and in advertising real estate it shall only
be necessary to publish the name of the party to whom the
property is assessed, the district in which it lies, the number