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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ered to the owner if he be in possession of the property, or
at his residence if he be within the same district, or mailed to
him if his post office address be known, and if not, then to be
conspicuously posted on the premises, together with a notice
that if said bill for taxes, interest and costs be not paid within
thirty days, the property levied upon will be sold at public sale ;
and the said treasurer is authorized to expose any property so
levied on at public sale, upon expiration of thirty days, either
on the premises or at the court house door in Annapolis, and
to sell the same to the highest bidder for cash, the said treasurer
having first given twenty days' notice of the time, place and
terms of such sale by advertisement in one newspaper published

Notice to be
given.

in Annapolis, to be designated by the County Commissioners
and by printed hand bills publicly posted at said court house
door, and at least ten places in the district where the property
is located, one of such notices to be placed upon the premises;
personal property may be sold upon ten days' notice by hand
bills so posted in the district and at the court house ; any adver-
tised notice of sale under the provisions of this section shall be
deemed sufficient if it contains the time, terms and place of
euch sale, the year or years for which the taxes are due, to
whom the property is assessed, the district where located, the
quantity of land, if land, offered for sale if there be record
evidence thereof and a reference to the liber and folio, where
the title for said property may be found ; in no case shall a
description by metes and bounds be necessary, nor shall a greater
sum than two dollars be paid for any newspaper advertisement
thereof, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to comply
with the provisions of this section and enforce the collection
of taxes so remaining unpaid before the first day of January
next succeeding the time when he is herein required to compel
the payment of such taxes.

Effective.

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

CHAPTER 284.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 157
of Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Charles County," sub-title "Roads and Bridges."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That section 157 of Article 9 of the Code of Public
Local Laws be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, so as to read as follows :