JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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other provisions, as in their judgment may be necessary to
carry into full force and effect the assessments.

CHAP. 681.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Common
Council shall have power, in any one year, to levy and collect
taxes not to exceed forty cents on the one hundred dollars of
the property assessed. The levy shall be made on or before
the thirtieth day of June for each year, and all taxes so levied
shall be a lien on any and all property of the persons against
whom they may be levied, and the taxes for each year shall
be due and payable on the first day of July next succeeding
the date of the levy thereof. The said taxes will be in arrears
if they be not paid by October thirty-first, in the year of
the levy, and legal interest shall be charged from November
first succeeding the date of the levy.

Tax
to be levied.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That whenever the Mayor and
Common Council shall levy a tax they shall cause to be made
an alphabetical list of the persons charged therewith, and
shall cause to be affixed thereto the respective sums to be col-
lected from such persons and a warrant to the treasurer to col-
lect the same.

Alphabetical
list to be
made, etc.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall, within
ten days after the receipt of such list and warrant, render to
such person named therein an account or tax bill, showing the
amount due by him, and if he be a resident of the town, and
if he be a non-resident and in consequence thereof cannot be
conveniently served with said account or tax bill, a copy of the
same shall be left upon the premises taxed, and may, unless
the same be paid by the first day of January succeeding the
date of the levy, collect the lame, with all costs, by distress
and sale of the real and personal property of the delinquent
at public auction, after giving at least ten days' public notice oi
such sale in some newspaper published in said town.

Tax bill to
be rendered,
etc.

SEC. 21. The Mayor and Common Council shall deliver to
the purchaser at any tax sale, as heretofore provided for the
collection of taxes, a deed of the real property so sold, and said
deed shall convey to the purchaser the said property and shall
be presumptive evidence that all requirements of the law have
been complied with in making such sale and deed ; but the
delinquent taxpayer shall have the right to redeem at any time
within two years by paying the unpaid taxes and costs, with
legal interest and the penalty of ten per cent, thereon. Sec-
tion twenty is applicable only where property is sold at public
auction after giving at least ten days' public notice of said sale
in at least one and not more than two newspapers published
in the town of Hyattsville, and if there be no newspaper pub-
lished therein any newspaper published in Prince George's

Deed of
property to
be given
to purchaser,