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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

31 ; four per cent, on all taxes paid in September ; three per
cent, on all taxes paid in October ; two per cent, on all taxes
paid in November; and one per cent, on all taxes paid in De-
cember. On the first day of January in each year, taxes shall
be deemed to be in arrears and interest shall be charged and
collected from that date till paid ; and immediately after the
first day of January, the collector of taxes deliver to each
delinquent, who has not prior thereto received the same, an
account of his assessment and the taxes and interest due
thereon, with a notice and warning to said delinquent thereto
attached, that unless payment be made in full within thirty
days from the delivery of said notice, the same will be col-
lected by process of law, and the said collector may at any
time between the first day of January and the first day of
April, proceed to seize, levy upon and sell the property of said
delinquent, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay
said taxes with interest and costs thereon, and also to pay the
taxes levied under section one hundred and sixty of this arti-
cle, according to the provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws relating thereto ; and on the first day of April of each
year the Collector shall immediately proceed to collect all
unpaid tax bills by seizing, levying upon, advertising and sell-
ing said property, or so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay said taxes, together with interest, charges and costs of sale,
and for this purpose the said collector is nereby clothed with
all the power possessed by collectors of taxes under the Code of
Public General Laws ; and the said collector shall report and
pay over to the treasurer of the Board of Commissioners of
said town before the first day of June in each year all taxes
collected by him from said delinquents.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 234.
AN ACT to amend the charter of the Baltimore and Washing-
ton Transit Company of Maryland, as incorporated under
Article twenty-three of the Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Corporations," sub-title "Railways," as amended
by Chapter 335 of the Acts of Maryland of 1896, entitled
"an Act to authorize The Baltimore and Washington Transit
Company of Maryland, to employ electricity as a motive