162 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ninety days after the levying of any tax by the Council the
clerk shall return to the Council a complete list of all tax-
payers who are delinquent, with a description of the property
and the amount of tax due from each, and if the taxes due
from any person or corporation shall not be paid before the
first day of September following, there shall be added on that
day a penalty of one per centum thereof, and a like penalty of
one per centum on the first day of each succeeding month
until such taxes and penalties shall be paid. The Council shall
not later than the first day of the following April proceed to
advertise the property named in said list for sale, and to sell
the same at public auction for the amount of taxes, interest
and costs due on each piece of property, whether for the year
current or for previous years, after publication and notice of
the time and place of sale, for at least three weeks, in some
newspaper published in Montgomery county. The notice ef
the sale shall state the time and place of sale, the name or
names of persons to whom each piece of property is assessed,
and the total amount of taxes, penalties and costs due from
each person, computed to the day of the sale. Sub-
divided property shall be designated by lot, block and sub-
division. Property not sub divided shall be briefly de-
scribed, so as to identify the land to be sold. The Mayor
shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed of the
property so sold, and the said deed shall convey to the
purchaser said property, and shall be presumptive evidence
that all the requirements of law have been complied with in
making such assessments, levy, sale and deed, and unless the
delinquent owner or owners of said property shall, within one
year from the date of said tax sale and conveyance, redeem
such property by paying to the purchaser thereof the whole
amount paid by him for said property, with interest thereon at
the rate of fifteen per cent, per annum, said title shall become
absolute and indefeasable. Whenever it shall become neces-
sary, for any purpose under this Act, to serve a notice or pro-
cess of any kind whatsoever upon any person or persons own-
ing property within the limits of said town, who may be
absent therefrom, or a non-resident thereof, or upon whom, for
any other reason, personal service cannot be had, and the
marshal shall make return to that effect, service of said notice
or process may be made by a publication of said notice or pro-
cess once a week for three consecutive weeks in some news-
paper published in Montgomery county, which said notice by
publication shall be as good and effectual as personal service.