EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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from that date until paid at the rate of six per centum per
annum, and at any time after the first day of January next
succeeding the date of the levy, and not before, payment
may be enforced by sale, as hereinbefore provided.

Y. The term of office of the treasurer hereby provided for

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shall begin on the first day of July in the year 1906 and
shall continue two years, unless sooner removed for cause,
and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, as
herein provided.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage; provided, however, that noth-

Term of office
of treasurer.

ing in this Act contained shall be taken or understood as
impairing the duties and obligations of collectors of taxes in
Montgomery county appointed prior to said last mentioned
date in regard to levies of taxes in their hands for collec-
tion; and it is hereby expressly provided that said collector
shall proceed to complete such collections under the existing
provisions of law as fully as if this Act had not been passed,
and the clerk to the County Commissioners shall continue
to perform all the duties by him required to be performed in
relation to the receipt and disbursement of taxes heretofore
levied until all outstanding accounts thereupon dependent
shall be settled and closed, and for that purpose alone the
provisions of the Act of 1892, Chapter 418, and of the Act
of 1900, Chapter 102, are hereby continued in force until
such accounts, are settled and closed as aforesaid.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That after the expiration of two

Effective.

years from the date of any sale of real estate heretofore or
hereafter to be made by any of the tax collectors of Mont-
gomery county, or by any trustee appointed by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County to complete the collection of
any such collector, the treasurer, provided such sale has
been duly ratified by said court, and the lands so sold has
not been redeemed under the provisions of the existing
laws, shall at the request and cost of the purchaser, his
heirs or assigns, convey the lands so sold by a good and
sufficient deed to him or them.

Approved March 27, 1906.

Good and suffi-
cient deed
given.