ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the person so
authorized shall, within ten days after the re-

493

ceipt of such list and warrant, send to each
person named therein an account or tax bill
showing the amount due by him or her, if he or
she be a resident of the village; and if he or she
be a non-resident, and in consequence thereof,
cannot conveniently be served with said account
or tax bill, he shall publish said account or tax
bill in some newspaper published in Charles
county at the expense of the taxpayer, and may,
unless the same be paid within thirty days after
the delivery of the publication of such account,
collect the same, 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 in some newspaper
published in said county.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the president

Must send tax
bill.

of the commissioners shall deliver to the pur-
chaser a deed of the property so sold, and the
said deed shall convey to the said purchaser the
said property, and it shall be presumptive evi-
dence that all the requirements of law have
been complied with in making such sale and
deed.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the person

Shall give
deed.

authorized by the commissioners to collect shall
make all collections required of him, and pky
the same to the treasurer of the commissioners
of the village within four months from the time
the tax bill is placed in his hands.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said com-

Collections —
to whom paid.

missioners shall annually, on the first day of
May, impose on every dog, owned or remaining
longer than five days in said village, an annual
tax of one dollar, and upon every bitch an an-
nual tax of five dollars, and upon payment of
such tax shall issue a permit to the owner of such
dog or bitch therein, describing such dog or
bitch, to keep the same in said village for twelve
months.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the bailiff of

Shall impose
tax.

said village shall kill any dog or bitch going at
large in said village without such permit to its
owner, and shall receive such compensation for
so doing as the commissioners shall think proper,

Failure to se-
cure permit.